I always thought it was unfortunate when Dad will come over to our room, when we were discussing, and it was getting to the most laughable part, but he will knocked on the door, and told us, to stop making noise, because it was nighttime. The deal is, I and my brother used to dislike it, and there was a time we have to asked mom, ‘what is really the matter? Because dad always say to us, to stop making noise, even when we were not.
Yet, we were, but it was just us, as kid, that did not understand to the extent we have disturbed the peace of the environment. This was why when it was always time to visit our Aunt, I will be very happy about it, because i sincerely understand that, at her place i will talk, disturbed and do as i like, and before she will notice my disturbance, I will already have the kind of freedom I didn’t have at home.
With everything in me, I used to reason that my Dad was not treating me fine, because many times, he always want someone to behave, cautioning me on how to sit properly in the parlor, and before time, whenever I entered the parlor, he will let me know that, i am not permitted to make noise, because he will be watching news on the tv. Meanwhile, news on the tv wasn’t what i wanted to watch.
Once we visit the parlor, i and my siblings, it was cartoon’s we want, news was just like putting a kerosine on a lantern that has a leakage.
But right at this moment that i have seen life from a different angle, I have understood that, truly, me and my siblings used to caused a lot of noise.
Because I used to noticed when children’s are around me, no matter how I told them to be steady in the house, they will not, instead, they will be jumping from one place to another in the room, and be causing a lot of distractions and also noise.
My nephew does the same, and most of the times, I will be distracted by his many style’s of play, but truth still remains that, it is a child lifestyle, and that is how they behave, because no matter how i tell him that he is distracting me from my activities, he would not believe, instead he will be increasing the speed, because to him, what he is doing doesn’t seems like a distraction.
Therefore, having a rethink to those days, has make me realize that truly, what dad used to tell me were true, i did make noise sometimes in his presence, and he didn’t just like to see me, growing up like that, because something’s a child failed to get corrected when he was young, might affect him when he is a grown up, so it was necessary to understand the importance of keeping an environment serene.