unconditional love - part two.

It's really amazing how God created children with pure and distilled minds.

My niece came over to my house today. Actually her whole family did, except for the father. She is a mere 9 year old child who has impressively shown good maturity of thought through her simple words and actions. Perhaps, this is attributed to the fact that she hasn't seen much of this complex world. That isn't a bad thing, in my opinion, because that's when whatever she says and whatever she does accurately define her real personality and character. That's why I believe that kids like her never tell lies.

After I came home from going out in the afternoon, she asked me if I could bring her to the market nearby so that she can see what she can get for her daddy for Father's Day with the $12.70 that she had saved up recently. I knew it will disappoint her to reject her because I was feeling really exhausted; but at the same time, I knew it would pain me even more to deny her this concession to let her fulfill a duty as a daughter, at a tender age of nine.

Honestly, I could not even bear to turn down her request, because her pure intentions really touched me. So I agreed. And while we were shopping for things, she kept saying things like 'mm daddy got three of this already, so this one don't want' or 'daddy only likes blue or black colour'. She actually loves her father so much that she knows him probably even more than anyone else. She eventually bought a notebook which costs $2.70, and a plain white tee-shirt which costs $3.90.

Her pure words and actions are, in my perspective, atypical of the situation in our society today, where majority of young children at her age will persistently urge their parents to buy things for them that they hardly need. Well, I must confess I had been guilty of that, but my parents were firm in making sure they don't give in to me all the time. That, I must say, have instilled a certain degree of discipline in me, and a sense of maturity in differentiating between needs and wants.

So thank you, Farzanah, for showing me another form of unconditional love.

Here's to you - I applaud you! =)