From sunday March 6 to March 9 I'll be with my spring break with my aunt Mimi, her real name is Marie but for as long as I can remember, I have been calling her mimi and the name stayed. When I am with my aunt, we have so much fun together, she is my best friend. When my aunt and I are together or if we are talking on the phone, we can go on and on talking and making plans to do stuff. We make jokes and talk about anything thats going on with me or with her. When I come over, my aunt is happy because she has someone to go to the movies, shop and have lunch with. My aunt and I have a routine when we are out together. We usually go to the movie theater, have lunch, go shopping, then (when I go to her house to sleep over) we relax and watch TV and talk.
The way I am engaging with my aunt is the same with how I am when I am with my mom. I can be open to talk and not have to worry for being judged and to just relax and have fun. I find it odd that sometimes I'm more open and happier being around my family than being in a group of friends. But that's just it, from my group of friends back in Florida or in CT, it's like I have to put on a new mask and act how everyone wants me to act. When I'm surrounded by my family with their love and support, I can take off my mask. I guess another reason why I like being around my family so much, is because I have been around them so much. In my family like once a month, my family comes over to our house on sunday and just talk and have dinner together, we are a close family.
After the movie, we went to Barns and Nobles and what I observed and listened to, really shock me and scared me a little bit. I was walking around the store finding a new book, minding my own business when I heard a mother yelling at her teenage daughter (she looked like around 13 years old). Usually if a parent is yelling in the store, it's most likely just a little annoyed tone in the voice to their child that isn't listening to them. They way this mother was yelling at her daughter scared me to a point where I hid behind a shelf a books to make sure she did see me watching her, so all I could do was listen to the anger in the woman's voice. My guess is that this family is divorce because she told her daughter "I should have left you with your father". I did not hear what happened in the beginning to make the mother so angry, but by the time I got to the store, she was anger at her daughter and telling her that she is not buying another vampire book, and that she is not going to waste money on buying a new book when she has others that she probably hasn't finished. When I did get a chance to see these people, the mother really looked annoyed and frustrated with her daughter. While the daughter was still looking at the books and surprisingly, not shaken up or upset by her mothers words. In my mind all I can think of was, if my mother yelled at me and said words like "I should have left you" or "your annoying" in a public place, I would be very silent and possible started to get tears (or just watery eyes) in my eyes.
Another observation I made while this was taken place was that everyone was quiet in the store, after hearing them. Even though it is a book store, you can still hear people by the cafe talking or someone around the store talking to someone, but making sure not to disturb the other people in the store. But by the time I was paying for my book, that same mother and daughter were right behind me paying for whatever they decided to buy. Even in line the mother still had an angry tone in her voice. She was looking at some bookmarks and was talking as if her daughter was behind her listening, but she was looking at something else outside the line, and the mother said "I guess I'm talking to myself like a fool". I couldn't wait to get out of the store and away for this person. After all that, I guess that maybe they came to some agreement or that the mother was only buying something.
I have a uncle that is divorce (he is remarried and happy), and his daughter Samantha goes to him somedays and the other with her mother. I don't know if the mother I saw in Barns and Nobles is divorce, but it sure looked and sounded like it. And It made worry if that would ever happen to Samantha. She is a smart girl and is having a hard time dealing with her mother, but I'm glad to see her smile and more happier with her father and his new wife. I really hope that Samantha never has this happen to her, she doesn't deserved to be yelled at. It hurts me to think how anyone can be so mean to their child, when their are other ways of dealing with a situation.
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