Fighting over the “assets” here, are we now??? Translated…
My mother is nearing eighty years of age, although she’d looked healthy on the outside, and her looks are not as pale, or frail, as women her age, but, her memories are slowly, getting lost, from before she had a rupture in one of the capillaries in her brains, it’d made her lucid at times, and, unaware at others. My dad is exactly the opposite to my mom, he has amazing memories, but, his physique is very weak. AL thought my parents would often argue, but they’re really close to one another, when the weather is amicable, and mom’s lucid enough, my dad would drive her to the country side on their adventures.
And still, a few days ago, when I’d gone back to my parents, my dad went off, claimed, that he could NO longer put up with mom anymore, and that from here on out, they will go, their separate ways. My dad told me angrily, that mom had, given what he deemed to be the most precious sign of their love, his engagement ring to her, to my baby sister in secret.
“That ring, I’d bought, with ALL the gold I’d traded in, the one thing that I wouldn’t sell off, even IF I didn’t have the money to buy more land, it took me over a month’s wages to buy, a token of my love for her. And that amethyst ring, it’d taken me, FOREVER, to finally find it, it represented the love I have for your mom, and she’d just, given it away, so carelessly, it’s too outrageous of her!”, after hearing dad out, I became confused as well, mom loved that ring very much, and would often wear it on her ring finger, so she could have it close to her, how could she possibly, without talking to dad first, and just, given it away, to my younger sister?
As my mom came back from her grocery trip, as dad saw her, he’d straightened his face, and rode off on the motorcycle, and now, my mother’s turn, to pour her heart out to me. She felt, that she’d become, more and more lethargic, and depleted of energy lately, especially, her memories are declining as well, plus, in these couple of months, a lot of her friends had passed away, it’d made her realized; she thought, that instead of waiting for herself to lose ALL her memories, and not recognize anybody, or dying abruptly, she should take advantage of now, when she is still lucid and well aware, and slowly, divide up her assets that she’d cherished the most, among her daughters.
“Only my daughters will miss me and cherish the things I leave for them, why can’t I give my ring to my daughter as a keepsake?” I can also understand where mom’s coming from too, but, for the sake of just one ring, causing my parents to give each other the silent treatment for days on end, forcing me to decide, who’s right and who’s wrong, it’s truly, difficult, for me, to choose a side as their child!
And so, here, we have a middleman who’s STUCK in between her parents, and she doesn’t know which way to lean towards, because both her parents had valid points, and, the father got angry because that ring was a token of affection for his wife, it’d taken very much for him to get for her, and she’d just, given it away, and for the mom, she’s thinking of the future, she’d wanted to give her daughter something to remember her by, and, without consulting her husband if she should or if it’s okay with him, she’d, given the ring to her daughter, and I imagine, that that, was what the dad is madder about, and the fact, that the mother gave away her ring to her child was only a trigger to the father’s anger of why his wife can just, give that token of affection he has for her away so thoughtlessly.
