tells real stories in the first person, observing the world and human emotions from the lives of others.
I am 36 years old this year and have a son and a daughter. I just got divorced the year before last. My ex-husband left me a small house, a small amount of savings, and a pair of children, so I stayed with my new love.
I have a sister who is 24 years old and studying abroad in country M. In the past two years during the epidemic, my parents and I wanted her to come back after finishing graduate school.
But my sister refused. She wanted to continue studying for a Ph.D. and stay in country M in the future. She said she had her own ideals. When we talked about it again, she said we were stubborn and just wanted to trap her.
My parents are over 60 years old. Although they are not too old, they worked hard in the early stage of starting a business and overdrafted too much. Now they are not in good health. In addition to my divorce, they have obviously experienced vicissitudes of life.
This year, my parents have taken turns to be sick and hospitalized. I am as busy as a spinning top. After being busy in the hospital and busy at home, I also have to pick up and drop off two children. I am really stressed.
Our family moved here from another province. We have no relatives here and we are too embarrassed to bother our friends all the time. I am obviously unable to do what I want, so I have to ask my sister again if she will consider returning to China in the future and sharing the responsibility with me to support my parents in their old age.
Unexpectedly, my sister got angry and said that my parents and I were narrow-minded, selfish, and stubborn in the world. She said that just hire a caregiver for my parents and a nanny for the children. This would free me up to go to work to earn money and improve myself. Finally, she muttered He said: No wonder your brother-in-law wants to divorce you.
I was so angry with her that I cried. She has been very articulate since she was a child, but I can't speak to her. Why is she so callous and ruthless, and why is she saying that we are worldly selfish? She never thinks about how much of the money she has spent studying abroad in the past few years was not earned by her parents?
She just wants to live her own life and realize her own value, without considering the lives of her parents and sister at all.
My parents now regret sending her abroad and have become more dependent on me. Although we are all very angry with her for her indifference, we are relatives after all and cannot bear to cut off her living expenses, so we still send her regular payments.
Whenever I see her posting about her foreign boyfriend, her so-called freedom, the beautiful scenery she has traveled to, and the delicious food she has eaten in the circle of friends... Then thinking about the responsibilities I bear, I become more and more hateful. She, the sister that my parents and I once loved with all our hearts, is getting farther and farther away from us.
Yes, I am so clueless. I am not as knowledgeable as her, not as thoughtful as her, and not as promising as she is. However, I know that I cannot ignore my parents and love my children. I like a life with warmth and love. A warm person, a warm country.
Everyone wants freedom, but when a person loses warmth, does not know the warmth and warmth of others, gives up her own responsibilities, and becomes selfish, what is the difference between her and a cold stone?
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