The Old vs. the Young


It’s the time of they year again where we celebrate Chinese New Year… I admit my angbao collection isn’t exactly as extravagant as the past few years because my grandpa passed away recently and there are some superstitious relatives and pple we can’t visit… plus the fact that some of my uncles and aunts don’t wanna give out angbaos because of some dumb thing again… my cousin started going orh hor… cannot wear red just because I was wearing my nice bright red top… yeah… haha… but praise God I’m not bound by such things… anyway that’s another story…

Every year we go to visit my mum’s best friend’s mother, aunty Neo. She’s a very interesting lady who is really amazing. She used to be the principal of Rosyth primary sch and I heard that she did wonders to the school. She improved it so greatly that it’s become one of those schools where parents try to send their children to. She’s really a character. So this year again we went to visit her (she’s a Christian) and this year was a different topic (every year the topics are different). This year she was talking abt her grandchildren who have started dating and stuff… not that they’re very young or my age… her grandchildren are in their 20s. So here goes the Old vs. the Young… haha… yeah… she was telling us that nowadays, young people date a few people before settling down and marrying one. Even then many couples still get annulments and divorced… oh yeah I forgot to mention that she officiates weddings… she’s gonna officiate mine for sure… haha… she was telling us that one of her friend’s son dated abt 3 girls and kept saying that the one he was dating was the serious one… but in the end he married no. 3… She said that in the past there was no such thing… if a girl started dating a guy one on one it meant that they were already thinking of getting married… meaning that they could only date one guy and this one guy was going to be the one they married… and when we started going on to talking about divorce and annulments, she made a comment that made me go hmm… she said that nowadays young couples don’t stick through thick and thin unlike last time… no wonder their marriages lasted so long and lovingly… my dad added that it’s because nowadays all our relationships with people are very short and not long term… well that got me thinking… what she said about the young people nowadays is quite true… well a couple of guys have called me old-fashioned and stuff cos I’ve never had a bf before… never dated… and because I really want to only date the guy that I ultimately marry… for the reason that I don’t wanna get emotionally attached to any other guy… in that sense I’m quite like the older generation and maybe it’s cos I’m brought up that way… my parents are rather strict about dating especially for me… I really want my future husband to have the best of me… not the leftovers I guess… but nowadays yet it seems really ok for a person to have more than 3 bf/gfs… I mean not that I find anything strange abt that… but for myself… I mean thinking abt it wad would I want for myself? This is a matter of opinion and stuff and just something for whoever reads this to think about… cheers! Haha…