I think it is a sign of growing up/old.


I welcome each and every birthday/CNY/Mid-Autumn/National Day/Christmas with gratitude.


I'm thankful for each and every celebration that we have that everyone's safe, healthy and happy. I know it's rare that families are as close as ours. And I think we are truly blessed to be able to meet up every weekend and have so much to chat about.


Arguments and unhappiness are always forgotten after a week, and I actually look forward to going to my Ah Ma house for some weird inexplainable reason.


It's like, when I was younger (yeah yeah, I'm old now. I admit it. Just for this post only.), I would disregard the weekly visits to my Ah Ma house. Going out with friends would be so much more important as Ah Ma house is always there for me every single week. My friends cant wait.


It's so much cooler to say that I'm out with friends instead of saying that "Oh, I was over at my gran's".


Ah. What was I thinking?


I must have been befuddled. I'm actually perplexed at my stupidity back then.


I'm really petrified at the thought that something would happen, or someone would leave, and this simple happiness would be taken away from me really soon.


We cant take things for granted that they would always be there for us, you know?


Sigh.


At moments like this, all anger and annoyance seem childish now.


And so, I'm grateful. Really. For being blessed with the good fortune of having each and everyone as my family.





=))