Hi my Steemian friends,
Yes today was not the best day of my or my husbands lives.
We feel hurt.
Why do other people do not think about there family, but maybe we are wrong and it is just a misunderstanding.
We are just having a financial crises at the moment and there is really money for just nothing, and we hoped to get some of our money from a sale that I have made in, before the end of the month, but oh no there is no change now we have to wait.
As in my business, we work for commission only, so if you sell a property you have to wait, for the registration of that property and only after that, we get paid our commission to us.
Well our grand son and family came to stay with us for a few days.
Very nice Family with the cutest little great grand child.
That is fine but they know, we are having a money crises at the moment, and they just treat my husband very bad, as they bought some drinks ,for them and not even one beer for him. Drinking in front of my husband how must he feel. My husband did not know that the son bought for every one so he felt hurt. But it was not meant to be nasty. He is old and do have a problem with his short term memory, so he will tell you his life story maybe twice, but who cares listen he had a hard life since he was very young. My husband had to walk for miles to get to a job or to look for work. He worked since he was 16 years of age.
Such bad times they had in 1960, there was no work for nobody, but he was not lying at home with mommy and just not looking for work oh no, he walked for miles and miles even in the dark, nights walking from one town to another like 60 Kilometers from where he use to stay.
Now it was so dark on the roads at night there was just no lights those days and he said he could only hear his feet when they on the road, sometimes he as in the middle of a road and then a car would come and then they nearly hit him with the car, but they would not offer you a lift in those days.
Today my husband is 77 years old and still trying to help where ever he can, and he always helps me with my work too.
My husband did all types of work he was an excellent Fitter and Turner by trade.
Since we came where we stay now he build 4 churches and done a lot of work as the churches was build with very little money. And he was never really paid for his work only a few Rand every week and so that was done and no bonus and then we suffer again. As I had to also borrow money to keep us alive and in the end I made a mistake too, by getting a credit card that I am still paying off now.
There is a lot of hurt left in my husbands heart from those years too.
Any how I feel much better now that I said my say and get it off my chess, because it is not good to be so bitter and unhappy in our old age. Children are not the same today as they use to be when I was young. We loved our parents very much and was always very good to them. My Late mom use to love toffees that you could those days buy in a tin and I always made sure she had her tin of toffees in front of her bed on the side cupboard. Every thing else she wanted we use to give to her.
It did not take much money to make our parents happy with sweets of there liking or biltong or whatever, but today our children do not care they are selfish that is all I can say.
Not only our children but my friends are all complaining about there children.
What can we do to change the situation. I do not think there is a way to change them now.
I hope if you have children or are children then please take note of this letter that I wrote as a lot of parents are going through the same things that we are going through now.
Take care of your parents today then if they are no longer here on earth you will have nothing to regret take my word fo it today. As then when you are older you will realize that you could have acted better and have respect for them, as they have brought you up to be good grown ups.
Well just think about it if you read my story and try and respect them from now on all the time. Help them also with work around the house and do things for them too.
All has been sorted out now and what can we say we must just learn by our mistakes.
Live can be better after you having the strait talk and not be upset and just bottle up your bitter feelings.
Blessings to all of you and may you all have a great weekend.
