Brace Myself

Pre-teen period is here and soon the teenager years are coming.

We fear what we don’t know and I am scared.

I know for sure she would change a bit by bit, physically, emotionally, and the suddenly no more the little girl that I used to know and somehow I am absolutely not ready for this.

There would be time when all the things that we have been planting or missed to nurture, will soon show its results.

Everything we have done will comeback and everything we neglect will attack.

Since few years ago, I have realized how parents have so little time to be with their kids yet so much homeworks to do.

Knowing all the homeworks that should be done is a good thing because many don’t even know what they are and don’t even bother to find out.

But, knowing is not enough. Doing it is what we have to do, and boy, that is so hard.

For the past three years, we have been consistently doing all the hard things first in the morning. We eat all the frogs before anything else . We spare all morning for the non-negotiables. Seven days a week.

Doing is an uphill job. It’s a job against gravity and we know how hard to go against it. But, I am too scared to imagine the consequences of not doing it just because they are hard.

And I don’t want to pay anything in the future just because I prefer being complacent in the present.

May the whys would always be stronger than any excuses available.

Amin.