Facebook Made Me Tear
Something made me tear up during the quietness of lunch break today. I was tagging some old photos in Facebook. Most of them are of my parents. And my Mom commented on two of them. the first picture (1) taken when i was 3 years old the second picture (2) taken when i was about a year old in my hometown It has taken a long while before my Mom and I have really improved our mother-daughter relationship. Mostly, our communication gap has been mainly because of how she often comes off quite unapproachable. Stern. Uptight. Over the years I have realized that there were reasons why she had to stay tough and pull herself together the way she did. It's one of the things women do when they're trying to keep themselves from falling apart. Mom and I never had a lot of mother-daughter conversations. We don't know how. It's always awkward to talk heart to heart when we come face to face. It's always easier to say ...