My Daughter Sweetie

With a special needs child at home, and, this woman is still, cherishing the time she is sharing with her smiling daughter, translated…

Everybody we know, says that my daughter is the bringer of the blessings of money for our home, that it’s, amazing how much wealth he’d, given to us, but, the trials of life we’d, weathered, was unimaginable.

Seeing how she’d smiled on without a worry or a care, at the age of twenty-seven, her life should be so full of colors, she should be working, going out with friends, but instead, all she wanted to do, is watch cartoons, have the cookies, and, call to me sweetly, “Mommy, you’re, my favorite!”

As I’d heard, I’d, started, smiling.  There’s a way out in life, even though, I can’t quite predict the future, but now, it’s, just the two of us, but, we’re, the happiest pair of mother and daughter among everybody I knew; the people who knew about our situations, always said, with that light scent of regrets, then, spoke, “just cherish it!”

My in-law’s family owned and operated a steel factory, but, as industrialization happened, it’d made the traditional industries have a harder time taking off, and, I’d, accidentally, gotten pregnant with my third child.  I’d thought about having an abortion, but my mother-in-law told me, “It’s an affinity, that this third child had come to you.  They will, bring their own wealth in life.”  Before the age of one, there’s nothing abnormal about my daughter, I’d looked at her, constantly laughing and smiling, I’m truly glad, of this sweetheart I was given, her favorite cartoon was “The Sweetest Girl”, so everybody said, “Sweetie in the cartoons was an orphan, but our sweetie, had brought a ton of good fortune to her parents!”

Surely, our family business was on the rise, we’d, expanded the factory, and, the orders came one by one nonstop.  With the accumulations of our wealth, to the point I was, too busy to care, but, there’s, that ache within me—Sweetie is growing by the day, and her mentality stays, at as a five-year-old young child; she’d not known she’d hit puberty, I’d, had to wipe away the menstrual blood that came out of her body, and, the years passed us by, and I’d, worried that she might get picked on by others, looking at her, she was, a heavy burden that we both shouldered, and, all our neighbors, they’d, chipped in, watched out for her too, because, in one moment of carelessness, we will, feel the pains of our lifetimes.

I’d once considered placing her in a home, but, I couldn’t, rid of the times of wonder we’d come to share, because, taking care of her, is the most important responsibility of my entire life.  Sometimes, I’d, wondered on why she’s mine?  And, in the past life, did we have, good affinities, or did we, owe each other?  That’s something, that I will, never know, so I shall, finish up our affinity in this lifetime.  The joys she’d given to me, greatly exceeds the pains and trials, our affinity was from eons and lifetimes before, looking forward in life, do what I can, even though she could express how she’d felt, but, I’d give anything, to keep that sweet smile on her face, all I pray, is that the heavens will bless her, so she could have a happy day every day of her life.

And so, this, is with a special needs child at home, and, surely, there would be, a ton of worries for your child’s future, but, all you can do, is to cherish the moments of life the two of you shared right now, because, nobody knows what the future has in store for the both of you!