Opps, this title sounds
like the show of tv program, isn’t it?
13th
of May is the second day of my work as a part timer in a shop in Midvalley.
(not suitable to mention its’ name here)
(I was finding job since a few weeks ago, but I can’t
even get a job, sound sad, isn’t it? Maybe this reflects the situation in Malaysia
, where
Malaysians are getting harder and harder to find a job, so, they will be
unemployed or jobless. Finally, the numbers of crimes will increase, especially robbing, cheating, escaping from paying debt, etc. Sorry
for going too far again)
It
is Sunday, a day where its’ customers was never stop coming in the shop.
It
is incredible!
This
is first time I work with a shop/outlet/company that its’ business is so good
until I’ve no chance to take rest, or even take a deep breath.
I
was tasked to guard the entrance of shop.
My
job is greeting customers who come in and go out from the shop.
Sometimes,
I will have to fold the clothes that had been messed-up by the customers.
As
now, we are having 50% sales. So, all the customers will not miss the chance to
find out the nice but reasonable price items for them to “change” the design of
their wardrobe.
Eh…
After bla,bla,bla… for so long, I think it’s the time to start my story regarding
to the title. What I said in the very beginning is just want to imagine the
condition or background of this story…
Can
imagine it already?
K,
here we go…
I
will start my story with this conversation with an unidentified
girl/lady/woman. (As what I said just now, I was unable to identify her
identity, so I am not sure how to call her. But I just know that she is a
female customer who came in the shop for window shopping)
She
was walking out from the shop. She is with long and curly hair, like the famous
hair style recently. She too highlights it (one of the way to make some parts
of hair to be in golden color or any others colors like red or blown). So, it
is no harm if I “titled” her as modern woman, as she is
about 40 in ages. (But, the technology is very advance and well developed now,
including the cosmetic tech, so who know; maybe she is 50 or 60 now?)
But, I have to clarify
that I am not hate or dislike her. K, here is our conversation:
The woman walked out arrogantly
from my shop with a black color handbag on her shoulder of her right hand.
“Thank you and happy
mother’s day” I greeted.
She walked a few steps
out from my shop. Just a few steps from my left hand side.
She looked back at me
and said: “How you know I am a mother? Am I looked like a mama?”
I felt shocked and my
mind just can’t connect well, as I really don’t know how to respond to what she
had said.
“Er… I mean everyone
is celebrating mother’s day” I responded to her.
She said nothing and
maybe not satisfies with my answer. Lastly, she walked away.
That time, I start
asking myself, am I doing mistake by greeting others “Happy Mother’s Day”?
Should I continue to do so (Greeting other customers with this warmly wish)?
Will other customers also respond like that?
But, in other cases,
there are a few customers responded to my greeting differently. Especially the
foreign customers who came Malaysia
for traveling. Or the pregnant women that just came out from the shop. Or the
old women that visited my shop with their family. I think they felt happy to be
greeted that way, as mother’s day is so meaningful for them.
On the other hand, some
customers didn’t respond to me. They just walked out, without respond, even
with a smile. This happen especially on Malaysians’ customers. Are Malaysians become
cooler and cooler? They don’t know how to reply a greeting like saying thank
you or even reply with a smile? So poor, Malaysians! (I am not desire other to
say thank you, but it’s a courtesy by saying thank you when people wishing us
right, isn’t it?)
In other case, it is a
sms within my friend and me.
I know her in USM, a
girl that I start to know her during I was joining the Radioactive (DJ’s
competition).
She is my junior, taking
mass communication in USM.
Again, I am not going to
reveal her name here, to protect her privacy.
This is my sms to her:
Remember who is the
person who fed you the first meal?
Remember what is the
first word that you called?
Ya, is “mama”
So, wishing you and your
mum Happy Mama’s Day.
This was what she
replied (I change a bit her sms, but what she wants to express is just like
this):
… This is the first time
I was greeted “Happy Mother’s Day”… and I felt shocked…
(She means she is not
yet a mother, and wondering why I wished her Happy Mother’s Day?)
So, from the two
examples above, I can conclude that our concept over mother’s day is not
correct. For me, Mother’s day should be celebrated by everyone, not only
mothers are the person to celebrate mother’s day.
Who grew us up?
Who fed us the first
meal and continue to feed us until the day we know how to feed ourselves?
Who always try their
best to protect us gave/gives us their support over everything we are dealing
with?
Who never leave us alone
at the darkness without caring about us?
Is her, our mum, our
lovely mum!
So, mother is not the
only person who will celebrate mother’s day.
We as a son/daughter
have to remember this.
We are the person that
should pay back their kindliness.
We should be the person
that will protect them, until the day they leave us.
It sounds sad, we have
to accept the reality that, they are going to leave us pne day.
So, we should never miss
a chance to pay back their kindliness.
Remember that, giving
them money is not the best way.
Just like typical essay
writing, we will complaint that:
… Parents who are too
materialistic, who only know how to earn money and think that money is the only
way to satisfy their children’s need are contributing to the increasing numbers
of cases where teenagers involved in social problem…
You still remember these
typical sentences that you wrote in your essay? (I am one of them who wrote
this in my essay, I admit it)
So, the same thing
happens to us and our parents soon. (the day when our parent getting old)
And the case will
become:
… Children who are too
materialistic, who only know how to earn money and think that money is the only
way to satisfy their parents’ need are contributing to the increasing numbers
of cases where a lot of old people was neglected and sent to old folk houses …
Are you agreeing with
this statement?
The best way is love
them, take care of them.
Just like our condition
now and before, we desire their care and love.
Don’t ever miss the
chance to love and care about them.
So that, we will not
regret after all.
“Happy belated Mother’s
Day” and “Happy be’earlier’ Father’s Day” to my parents and all of you who are
reading my blogs.
Chong Lee
5.22pm,
15th of May, 2007
(The pictures was grabbed from Yahoo!'s Image Search with the key word: Mother)
