A Major Break Up

I started writing this on the third day of the break up.

To put in the context, I talked about a game.

We finally decided to uninstall the famous Roblox from the device and wiped it off from little girl’s daily routine after months.

For others, it might be just a game. But for her, Roblox had been one of her most important things.

Why? Because it was one of the routines she loved the most. After a long tiring day with full packed schedule, it was the one who soothed her. She endured a long day knowing that Roblox was waiting at the end of the day. Roblox was just like a friend where she looked forward seeing based on the schedule. Time spent playing Roblox was one of her happiest time.

She cried so hard that night and it broke my heart. Tried to explain slowly why we had to come to this decision. We told her some of its contents were not age appropriate and it would ruin her brain.

We (the parents) also had hard times dealing with this at first. Guilt was all over the place. But, the decision was final. I felt like we couldn’t afford the price that we should pay later if we decide to keep having it around.

It might seem harmless right now, but we have been warned several times until the major one came right in front of our eyes. It would be so wrong to ignore all the warnings.

She accepted it slowly, so did we.

I completed this writing a week after the discarding night. So far, she handled it well and we have found few other safer games and she is enjoying them so far.

I have been doing many ‘taking the hard right over the easy wrong’ for the past seven years of motherhood. Uninstalled Roblox was one of the hardest ones so far. Many more to come in the future, I believe.

May Allah and the force always be with us.