As years
passed by, she is getting gaunter and gaunter. Sometimes she seems to be
exhausted. She claimed that she was okay as she had been used to working hard
since she started to work as a little former when she was 6. Anyway, she
collapsed once recently because of serious headache that caused by high blood
pressure.
“I’m
going to die because you guys piss me off all the time!” she grumbled at me and
my siblings, “I won’t live long.” She often says something like that.
She
seems to blame us that we are burdens to her but actually we know she loves us
more than herself. Even if she is tired of being a worker and housewife at the
same time, she still wakes up early in every morning before our alarm clocks
ring and insists to prepare a hot and fresh breakfast for us. Struggling with
her sore waist and aching back, she just takes a deep breath, swallows all the
pain and pretends she is able to support the crushing sky.
Due to
the difficult time of bringing up three children, especially we had ever lived
in poverty when I was a kid, she tends to have a quite strong expectation of
seeing us to became ‘dragon’ in the future, which turns she to be so-called ‘tiger
mum’. This is also very much affected by her realism.
“You
will be a sweeper if you don’t work hard now!” she frowned and said.
She has
kept threatening us about how bad our future will be in case of not getting
good academic results. Every time she wants us to listen to her words so
desperately, she must shout at us loudly and we can see her face growing to be
red and as fierce as roaring lion. I guess this is the major reason why she got
high blood pressure. The others may think that she is having a bad temper, yet
we all know that her fury is just one way of expressing her love.
When I
was young, I used to believe mum was so tall and big. Two decades lapsed, I have
discovered that she is so small and fragile, but her instinct of protecting her
babies drove her to be strong and undefeatable. I think it is time for me to make
her a better life.
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