Is money all that matters to you? After all, you are old - how much money can you bring to your grave? So the child who gives you the most money, becomes your favourite. What happens to the eldest who supported her younger siblings, sacrificing her studies and life, only to have her younger siblings outdo her and have a monthly salary 8 times her amount? You see her as your maid, your worst child born ever (when she gave you the most money when she first started working) your most irritating member of the family - she has to do what she has to do.
And you, as a father, subconsciously pass on this belief and view of yours to that pack of children who treat their eldest sister like a maid, someone unworthy of respect. She was screamed at, hurled insults at, and what did you do? You sparked off the rage within your pack of children. You sat there and smiled smugly as your youngest (and most spoilt, in my opinion) hurled verbal abuse at your eldest. Is that what a dad should do, to encourage such behavior?
What you want is money, luxury, a maid to wait upon you - voice it out then. No you didn't dare to, your children obviously were too selfish to think of that option. Maybe its karma, that is why your sons haven't produced a heir to carry on your family name.
And him, oh so many things I could say. He is the perfect one, so he thinks. He yelled at me for not showing him respect, when he did not show respect for his own elder sister. He shouted at the top of his voice to get his way around, when his reasoning did not make sense at all. The whole list of things I could say about him, the insults I endured, the things I had to do for one tiny favour. Yet all these stayed within the four walls of the house - because he is charming to everybody else outside the family.
Your pack of children outcast their eldest sister simply because she doesn't match their education level; your pack of children do not even stay with you, yet you think the world of them. Your pack of children do not help out in caring for you; they did not bother about your wife - whom, I must say, hates you to the core - yet you placed them on your favourite list and sided with them against the only daughter who gave up so much for your welfare. I repeat, your welfare. You would perhaps have died of a heart attack if nobody was around the night you had a stroke. That, you do not remember. Instead you remember only the amount of money your daughter owes you, and the amount of hundreds you receive a month from your pack of children.
Your sack of rice is more important than my university education; your savings (for fuck?) are more important than seeing me through university. Thus, I give you only minimal respect as an elder, because you and that pack of children - to me - are the same. I learnt these bad habits and manners from you.
And you, as a father, subconsciously pass on this belief and view of yours to that pack of children who treat their eldest sister like a maid, someone unworthy of respect. She was screamed at, hurled insults at, and what did you do? You sparked off the rage within your pack of children. You sat there and smiled smugly as your youngest (and most spoilt, in my opinion) hurled verbal abuse at your eldest. Is that what a dad should do, to encourage such behavior?
What you want is money, luxury, a maid to wait upon you - voice it out then. No you didn't dare to, your children obviously were too selfish to think of that option. Maybe its karma, that is why your sons haven't produced a heir to carry on your family name.
And him, oh so many things I could say. He is the perfect one, so he thinks. He yelled at me for not showing him respect, when he did not show respect for his own elder sister. He shouted at the top of his voice to get his way around, when his reasoning did not make sense at all. The whole list of things I could say about him, the insults I endured, the things I had to do for one tiny favour. Yet all these stayed within the four walls of the house - because he is charming to everybody else outside the family.
Your pack of children outcast their eldest sister simply because she doesn't match their education level; your pack of children do not even stay with you, yet you think the world of them. Your pack of children do not help out in caring for you; they did not bother about your wife - whom, I must say, hates you to the core - yet you placed them on your favourite list and sided with them against the only daughter who gave up so much for your welfare. I repeat, your welfare. You would perhaps have died of a heart attack if nobody was around the night you had a stroke. That, you do not remember. Instead you remember only the amount of money your daughter owes you, and the amount of hundreds you receive a month from your pack of children.
Your sack of rice is more important than my university education; your savings (for fuck?) are more important than seeing me through university. Thus, I give you only minimal respect as an elder, because you and that pack of children - to me - are the same. I learnt these bad habits and manners from you.