Have you noticed that in the relationship between children and their parents, those children who spend a lot of time with the elderly and take good care of them are often regarded as the worst? And those who are far away from home and indifferent to the elderly, once in a while, come back once in a while and buy some gifts, which can make the old people happy and show off their filial piety. In our village, such examples abound, and my grandmother was one of them.
Grandma has two sons and a daughter. My daughter married away from home, my eldest son worked outside the home, and only my father worked locally with a meager income. In order to subsidize the family, the mother grows vegetables at home. Compared with the eldest son and sister-in-law's family, our family's life can be described as hard. Despite this, our family did their best to take care of Grandma and never stopped taking care of daily necessities, fruits and vegetables.
On my grandmother's 80th birthday, my family was busy preparing for the birthday party the day before yesterday. When my sister-in-law came home, she threw her bag away and sat on the sofa waiting for us to serve her. The eldest son has not been home for many years because of his busy work. During the whole birthday celebration, only our family and a few friends of my father were busy. Despite our hard work, my grandmother praised my sister-in-law in front of the neighbors for her filial piety and how she carefully prepared gifts and clothes for her. She turned a blind eye to our family's efforts, and even found fault that the birthday party was not rich enough to invite a performance team.
This makes us feel very helpless and chilled. If it weren't for the fact that the eldest son and sister-in-law were both out of town and needed someone to take care of the grandmother, our family's living conditions might not have been so difficult. Now, they have become representatives of filial piety, and our efforts have been wiped out. Is this the sorrow of human nature?
Someone said, "An unreasonable old man, no matter how much you do for her, you won't be able to do well." This sentence seems to express the helplessness. A hundred times of good, but not worth the times of badness; If it is not good, it will be wiped out of all the efforts. Is this a weakness of human nature, or is it a result of a social climate? Do you have such parents around you? Feel free to leave a message in the comment area to share your views. We'll see you next time.