Tuesday, February 22, 2005
It's Kris' 32nd birthday today. We're going out tonight for dinner & a movie. Planned to bake him a birthday cake, but had been online chatting with my aunt & a few friends as well as surfing the net for wedding stuff, and not done anything for him. I gave him his pressie last week along with his Valentine's Day gift so that he can enjoy it the whole week. He had been pretty down with getting older & the Beatle's #1 hits cheered him up quite a bit.There are so many problems in life & sometimes I don't understand why some people just wanna create more for themselves. Refusing people's help when u so need it, creating tension with others, taking up more stuff than u can handle & failing all else while trying to plan others... All in all, everything collapses with no proper planning & no blessings (where blessings are essential & mandatory, especially when dealing with the parents). Further to the collapse, more problems come out of it. Fire-fighting with life's problems is not a good advise I would give. The idea is to start with THOUGHT.
It's all about THOUGHT. You should have planned, thus requiring heaps of thinking, rationalising, negotiating, etc.
The proverb: It's the thought that counts... DAMN TRUE!! When you do something, you have to think for others. Especially when you have parents involved & you are the child. Parents are very sensitive in their old age and we should never disregard their feelings nor discard their involvement & importance.
No matter how right you think you are, there's always room for negotiation. Parents are not impractical zombies who'd want everything done their way. There is always a way of getting what you want while satisfying their needs. It boils down to how much you think of them.
