Using HIS mama like an A.T.M., on filial relations, translated…
“Your eldest brother said, he will be my bank! That I wouldn’t have a thing to worry about as I get older”, my mother was grinning ear to ear, with that look of bliss, overflowing her, and, hearing this, I can only, force a smile out.
Fifteen years ago, my eldest brother just started working at the Hsinchu Scientific Park, he’d asked my mother for a million dollars in loan to buy a BMW, “I want mom and dad to ride more comfortably!”, back then, my mother was, extremely moved by his gestures, she’d immediately told me to transfer the amount to my eldest brother’s account. And, he did, buy that high-end car sure, but, my eldest brother lives in Hsinchu, while my mother lives in Pingdong, and, my mother only got to ride on his high-end car the limited number of time that she’d gone to visit her grandkids.
A decade ago, my eldest brother came home for the New Year’s, “If I have a million dollars, I wouldn’t have any troubles, investing in the stock markets! And, I shall, share ALL of my earnings with my siblings.” Mom commended my eldest brother for being a fitting son, knowing how to care for his younger siblings, and had me transfer the money into his account after the New Year’s.
Five years ago, my parents decided to sell their home they’d worked hard all their lives for, to move in with my second eldest brother who lived close by. As the papers were signed, my eldest brother called again, “I’d invested some money for my coworkers, hadn’t earned anything yet, but, I’ll keep the investments for a bit, and, I will bring in double what I put in, it’s just, my coworker wanted the money he’d given to me to invest now, I wanted to borrow two million dollars from mom first to give it back to my coworker.”, as my mother hung up the phones, she’d immediately had me gone to the banks in a jiffy, with her bank books, and her stamp, to do what my eldest brother had asked her to.
For fifteen years, BMW had been exchanged for a better, newer sedan, and, the split of the stock investment earnings, NO signs of it, and, the money he’d helped put up for his coworker to invest, never heard of again, everything was like, it’d, never happened before.
what is happening ALL over the world right now, children, refusing to stand up, and just, SUCKED their parents DRY like LEECHES!!! Not my comic still.
Yeah, yeah, my eldest brother surely, IS my mother’s bank all right, it’s just, that this bank only collected the fees, and, who knows, if my mother will be able to, withdraw from him in the futures. But my mother loved hearing the sweet nothings, never doubted my eldest brothers claims, NOT a single one of them, kept telling everybody she knew, of how wonderful my eldest brother was; but, my second eldest brother, who’s like a buffalo, just looked after my mother’s live from day to day, because he couldn’t sweeten up his lips, he’d often gotten scolded, nagged by my mother.
Is it how mothers loved their eldest children unconditionally, or, are women really, “creatures of hearing”? I really, can’t answer that.
So, this, is a story, of a GOOD for NOTHING son who knew how to make the empty promises to his own mother, to GET her to give him endless amounts of cash, and, while this eldest son butters up his own mother for what he wanted, the second son was the one, taking care of EVERYTHING in the elderly’s life, and that, is very, unfair! But hey, there’s, NOTHING to be done, and, the mother, it seemed, will, NEVER wake UP!