Doesn’t need to be something material or anything, just something you really liked or appreciated?

  • 「黃家駒 Wong Ka Kui」@piefed.ca
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    3 hours ago

    I have this memory of getting a 3x3 Rubik’s cube from mom for… I think either X-Mas or New Years… Not sure if “favorite” but definitely most memorable…

    I think this is the only time I didn’t have to “beg” for stuff… usually I only get stuff if I really nagged my parents a lot… and my requests get denied frequently (cuz money issues being a new immigrant) but this time I kinda just mentioned “I want that magic cube thing that I had before, I wanna solve it now”, I mentioned it like with the past two weeks, and she just went ahead and got one for me… (but its those cheap ones with the weird stickers that would eventually fall off… I kinda destroyed it cuz I’m bad at keeping stuff lol, like I broke or lost a lot of things I had) But hey, she didn’t get it because I begged, she actually wanted me to be happy… like that felt more emotional, more like a real gift than just being a “bribe” to keep me quiet and stop being annoying.

    That was during my… I think early teen years, and before that I had a cube in my early childhood like at least few years before, can’t remember much about those earlier cubes I had except as a memory of recalling another memory.

    I used to closer to her… I think I just got older and… um… life expectations (careers, sucess, expectation of being able to be independent and acquire wealth and win this game of capitalism)