Drawing a happy childhood for my parents 👨👦🫂
Hello friends today I want to participate in the initiative of the @hive-naija community, which weekly brings us interesting topics to develop, in the format of two questions and you can choose the one you want.
The first question is about remembering a moment from the past that you would like to relive and as much as I tried to remember positive things, only painful moments came to me, which have not been many but apparently they have marked me enough to overshadow or hide the beautiful moments I have lived because I could not remember any nice moment that I wanted to tell you so I decided to move on to the second question.
In the second one they invite us to draw anything we would do in the world and that could become a reality, at that moment I thought of my parents and I would like to draw them as children where their parents (my grandparents) show them expressions of love, protection and affection. My parents lived a very sad childhood, they were abused by their own parents and they grew up feeling that lack of love that to this day is still present.
My grandparents who have already passed away had a very strong character and committed things that hurt my parents, they mistreated them, and I am not referring to the correction that a parent can give a child to learn to behave properly, no, the abuse that my parents lived was mostly psychological and also physical, To give an example I can say that my father, still being a teenager, when he heard my grandfather's call he was so afraid of him that he would urinate on himself and in the case of my mother, although she had many siblings, it was with her that my grandfather showed contempt and also did things that no parent should do with a child, such as forcing her to steal.
For many years I felt resentment, anger and hatred towards my grandparents, for what they had done to my parents but after I grew up I stopped judging them and understood that they were not perfect and also made mistakes that I did not know how their childhood was and the traumas they themselves had, also my parents do not feel any bad feelings for the memory of their parents only that they still feel feelings of sadness and pain.
So I would like to draw them a father they didn't have so they would grow up being happier and not have that emptiness, it would be a drawing where my paternal grandfather took my dad to the circus and my maternal grandfather took my mom to study and talked to her with affection and respect.
The drawings would show both of them having parents as they themselves were with me loving, patient, self-sacrificing, that would be wonderful and would fill me with much happiness if this could come true. 🥲
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That's quite thoughtful of you to put your parents happiness into consideration first. It's sad that they had to experience harsh brought ups because you can make a difference for them.
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I respect and love them very much, I have tried to be the best daughter I can however I would like to make him happier.
Thank you @george-dee, it's the first time I write about it, it was hard because I had a lump in my throat, but it was nice to dream of giving them another chance.
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It's sad that your parents had to go through that. And I must say, they are blessed to have a thoughtful and considerate daughter like you. I hope they get to experience more beautiful things in the remaining years of their life. And you too, I wish you happiness that will overshadow all the negative feelings that have clouding your past experiences. I loved reading your post. Really
Amen, sister, may it be so.
Thank you for your nice comment, I wrote with much sincerity opening my heart, I am glad that the message and feeling has reached you. @oluchi31 🥰
I believe that the childhoods of our parents' era were mostly quite precarious and somewhat painful if we compare it to ours, but in each of us is the reasoning to follow the pattern or cut it to make another story, as your parents did.
It is very sad to know what they went through, experiences like that mark anyone.