Dear Mom,
You know that I’m no good at expressing feelings in person due to my shy nature and insensitive tendencies. I’m also no good at doing things that you were used to do in your youth because we grew up in 2 different worlds. Finally, I was never good at living up to your expectations because I wasn’t the perfect child you envisioned. But despite this shortcomings of mine, you never did once disregard the fact that I’m still who I am. The troubles I’ve caused, the dreams I’ve broken and the promises I failed to keep were all, as much as I know, damaging to you but you were still always there for me be it passively or aggressively. If there ever was one thing I was good at then it should be none other than the art of hiding. I was afraid, I’m afraid, I’ve always been afraid of telling you this:
Do je
Kiitos
Danke
Efcharisto
Mahalo
Toda
Grazie
Domo
Kamsa hamnida
Gracias
Salamat
Thank you
See Mom? I told you I wasn’t good at anything because I even failed to uphold the only thing I was ever good at.
Oh and...
I LOVE YOU!
Marvin
If there ever was one thing I was good at then it should be none other than the art of hiding. - we're all excellent at this. I hope that your mom gets to read this in the near future. Great piece. :)
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