How Your Kids Inherit Your Preperation Softwares?
by Conrad Ho Siu Chan
It was a sunny and breezy Autumn Sunday morning. The sky was blue. The air was fresh and cool. Yat my elder son, Sum my younger son and myself went for an outing to the outlying island of Cheung Chau. A ferry would depart at 10:30 a.m. but we were still just out of the subway station in Central at 10:20 a.m. There was no way but to hurry along if we were to catch the ferry.
My hands holding onto my sons� on either side, I trotted really fast, forgetting they were only kids with much shorter legs and constantly brushing them along verbally, Quick! Quick! Or will miss the ferry! How come youhe so slow, Sum? What are you looking at, Yat?� After five minutes of frantic fast walking, we reached the harbour shore pedestrian walkway. My heart pumped even faster and I could feel my adrenals working even harder as I strained my eyes to look at the ferry pier maybe 200 metres away to see if the ferry was still berthed there.
Unable to figure out which pier was which, I blamed myself a bit in mild discontent while my legs automatically accelerated into slow running. This was the time when I began to feel butterflies in my stomach and my stomach muscles tense up in slight discomfort. However, my mind was sharp in focus on reaching the pier on time no matter what. I just paced on.
I was, in fact, self-hypnotized. Sum pulled me back into reality. He suddenly stopped and bent down. In distress and panting, he massaged his stomach and complained about stomach ache due to stress. Though he uttered his words only in a low voice, it was like thunder roaring in my ears. I heard myself advising myself, 絶orget about the ferry! No point demonstrating to Sum how to stress oneself out in similar situations!�
I immediately slowed myself down and gave my own stomach muscles some good massage. I talked in a tone as deliberate and relaxed as possible to Sum and Yat that we would just enjoy our walk to the pier. We did slow down into a leisure walk, chatted a bit about the new Star Ferry pier and admired the many road posts and signs in different colors leading us to the Cheung Chau Pier. Eventually, we were there two minutes early and did catch the ferry.
As I was feeling the wind in my hair on board of the ferry, this sentence repeatedly rang in my ears, 荘hat is how you pass on some of your ways of living your life to your kids�That is how you pass on some of your ways of living your life to your kids�� And I was glad and grateful to have grasped this opportunity to notice this insight.
