Thursday, September 06, 2007
my little neice is due nxt week!!!! hahaha how time flies. i still vividly rmb the geog lecture when i first received the msg frm my sis telling me that i have a little neice! and i got so elated i couldn't stop bouncing on my seat and sharing the news with the people around me. haha.
9 mths have passed since then. doesn't seem like a long time to me. i wonder how the 9 mths have been to my sis. most parents wld say that it is a grueling process...having to walk around with a ballooning stomach and endure the jolts of pain from the baby's kicks. hm...but somehow i think it entails more than just suffering. maybe a little of bliss and excitedness anticipating the arrival of the baby. maybe sometimes such happiness overrides all the pain that you're going through, turning the baby's kicks into punches of ecstasy that injects life into the mundane seven days a week. at least thats most of what i hear from my sis. in fact i havent really heard her complain abt the troubles of being pregnant. everytime we talk about trisha, she's so full of smiles and seemingly engulfed by a dome of love. maybe thats motherly love.
watching a life grow literally inside you, feeding on not just your nutrients, but your emotions, its no wonder how mothers feel so attached to their child, even after they've grown up and establish a life on their own. of course extreme possessiveness sometimes result in over-protection, and eventually suffocating the child. but i guess all mothers start out on goodwill. a mother's love for her child is so abstract, i guess no one can fully understand until she becomes a mother herself.
i can't imagine that the next time i meet trisha, she'll already be out of her mother's womb. i wonder how she looks like... haha. (:
posted @ 1:43 PM