Family

Different people are born in different hospitals, the different household. Parents' attitudes are crossed to form the one of their descendants. After birth and care, their children are just like brand new white sheets of paper. They are allowed to choose their selections of paints and their quality of paint brush. Painting this piece of paper with different, vivid arrays of colors can easily create an impression among the community. But paint it with simple and dull colors will forge a plain, old and boring piece of paper to be investigated by people, creating a bad impression. The quality of paint brush also affects the design on the paper. A fine-hair brush of good quality allows more elegant strokes to create beauty. But a rough-hair, second-hand old brush will only create smudges and spoil the beauty. Their descendants, depending on how they were groomed, will return the favor in times to come.

Looking at the descendants' point of view. They can have different viewpoints on their parents. They can respect them as idols, fear them as devils, hated as blacklists, or even ignored as though they were paupers from a street. It was the parents' choice, to groom them a bright road to future, or spoil them for eternity. In most cases, people will only respect one parent, hating the other, just like the author here, who actually hates his father and never had a proper communication with him and only listens and communicate with his mother, the one who treated him better.

Teens all have different family backgrounds. There are those born from a loving couple and live happy life. Those who have a workaholic for a father/mother and spends more time with his mother/father. Those who have both parents as workaholics and barely have proper concern from them. Those whose parents can never get along well, quarreling with each other and lacks care. Those who have lost either one of his/her parent, living with only the other. Even those who have lost both and end up in an orphanage or left as street urchins. We all have different histories and different teachings.

Now, we all must learn to: cherish what we have now, rather than shed tears over their loss when the time comes.