A HongKong Winter Afternoon
Through our window I can see the golden sunshine on this winter afternoon. It is particularly beautiful today - the Friday before the Christmas weekend (starting tomorrow it is a holiday till Tuesday). The sky is clear and the sun is shining such a mellow golden sunshine that it is difficult not to feel happy. I had gone out to Pacific Place a while ago and the air was so crispy. It was not too cold and I walked around gaily before taking the taxi back home.
This is our first winter in HongKong. It is different from Tokyo which was way colder than this and the sun was normally not so clear. It is a very happy afternoon I am enjoying here - I wish there was a way to bottle these moments, these feelings and sometime in future I could open the bottle and feel the same way.
Possessiveness and Motherhood
Are you possessive about your child? I try not to be but there are times when I realize what I am feeling bears a teeny-weeny resemblance to this all-destructive sense. And then I wonder if I can feel that for a 2 year old child what must a big majority of mothers be feeling when a daughter-in-law walks into their lives. I always wondered (till I became a mother) why is there a prepetual undercurrent in the relationships of mother-in-laws and daughter-in-laws.....how can the two relationships be at a conflict when one is of a mother and another of a partner! I feel it all stems from a certain element of possessiveness that both parties have towards the poor guy who happens to be lying in between!
