Am i mean?
30/03/2009And my mother was rushing out the door with her pale stricken face.
And i was wondering what happened?
“Your sister called saying your brother got into an accident he’s in the ambulance wheeled to the hospital”
“Ohh? Text me when you get more information”
A little background information, I was never close to my siblings my sister or my brother. I treated them as nonexistence. We don’t talk to each other. We don’t acknowledge each other. Well my sister is always at home but i’m rarely in the same room as her. As for my brother, he rarely sits at home. He goes to work and after work he would spend time with his girlfriend. The only time he comes back home is late night and in the next morning, he would be gone.
We don’t even make any eye contact at all. And the only time when we actually go out together is probably when it’s family day when my father forced us and perhaps Hari Raya, you know visiting our relatives.
I was in the bathroom thinking what will it be like if he’s dead. To be honest, i don’t feel sad at all but i am a little worried. And i was wondering if he dies can i get his room? And if he dies, he’s pretty worthless he didn’t bring much assets or money into the family. It wouldn’t be a big hit for me.
And so i was pondering upon that. Aren’t I’m such a mean horrible person? I never did like my siblings anyway. It’s somewhat true that all i could think about it money money and money to buy things that i want not that i need. Don’t call me a materialistic fucker because i already know that. Why don’t you try telling me something that i don’t know?
And then an image of my mother sitting at the edge of the bedside with her face in her hands weeping uncontrollably and holding a yasin, which is like a subset of the Qur’an, the holy book, i guess, trying to find faith or calmness from god. That totally hit me hard. I guess upon all my family members, if anyone dies, my mother is gonna be hit the hardest in terms of the emotional pain. She told my brother countless times, don’t ride the motorbike it’s dangerous!
I love my mother very much. I’m sure everyone do i guess unless you have some conflict going on and then that’s a different story. I guess i don’t really care if i my brother dies but i do care that my mother will be very upset and i wouldn’t want that to happen to her. Besides, she’s 53. That’s old and being old and receiving such complicating and shocking words could proved to be too much for her. I don’t want anything to happen to her. Not to mention my father he’s 55.
Yet somehow my hands are trembling. Well i do hope everything will be alright. How bad can it be?
