My Father’s Promise

My family is my life. I am really happy with my family life. There is always happiness among us. We never fight each other. My father never makes my mother cries and so do I. However, one day, everything changed. My family life totally changed. I felt so frustrated after my uncle passed away three years ago in which it made my family life became so complicated and chaotic.

Honestly, the thing that I could not accept was that my father was often in my aunt’s house to treat her and my cousin. I really knew that they were so sad of losing my uncle. My father always consoled them so that they were not too sad. I knew that my father was really kind to entertain them always. He was so busy with them in which he rarely picked me up at school so I had to go home with public transportation. My father was seldom at home in which made me so missed him. I really missed about our togetherness in watching TV together in our family room.

My mother and I were so jealous with my aunt and my cousin. Something that I could not understand was that they always asked my father to do something that was really trivial and actually, they could do it by themselves. They were too spoiled with my father. My father always helped them even though he was so busy with his job. My father was so patient to help them. The worst thing was my mother always cried and quarreled with my father because she could not control her jealousy. I could understand it because I felt the same thing with my mother.

I tried to talk with my father calmly because I did not want this problem destroyed my family life. I texted him to go home and then, we sat face to face in our house. I explained the problem to my father. My father cried and said that he has promised to my uncle to keep his family. My father also said that we could not be egoist. As their relative, we had to treat them especially when they were in sadness. My father apologized to my mother who was in the bed room and to me as well. He promised that he would pay attention more to me and my mother. My mother and I could understand about that and we tried to be more patient with my aunt and my cousin. Finally, we hugged each other. I could remove my longing feeling with him by hugging him. 

From this experience, I realized that we may not be egoist people. We have to think other’s happiness and the most important thing is that we have to fulfill our promise to the others. This frustrating problem which made my family life became so complicated and chaotic can make me more mature to undergo this life.