I guess most parents (if not all) ever suffer a so-full condition that you want to hide in a place where no one can find you, just to relax and do things you want to do. Far from the sometimes-so-nagging kids simply to have a comfy seat, slurping your favorite coffee or tea. Get rid from those mommy-I-want-this-mommy-I-don’t-want-this yell, just to finish the two chapters of your novel. Avoid the mommy-why-this-like-that-why that-like-this, only to focus on your writing or simply nail-polishing.
Everyone needs a space; whether it’s a space to do little things till doing big things, say, like working on your dreams. Having kids require this space to be more tolerant and flexible. Out of normal time, like dawn, becomes a choice for me to create this space. Not only it lets me do my own personal works but also rewards me with a feeling of freedom, that I can have my very own time.
My daughter is an active one (if we avoid the term of ‘hyperactive) and sometimes it’s hard for me to focus on my works or readings when she is around. But one day, when she’s ill and very, very silence… I wish nothing but her daily talkative-non-stop words. John Andrew Holmes describes it the best “A child enters your home and for the next 20 years makes so much noise you can hardly stand it. The child then departs, leaving the house so silent you think you are going mad.”
The best of it is always to enjoy whatever comes. We don’t know how precious it is until one day we lose it.
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