Spare time for your parents...

Time elapses pretty first...

Just the other day I was a kid and with the pleasure of enjoying and playing with my parents around. I loved them dearly, I still do.

Time spent with parents cannot be compared to anything else. It’s valuable and satisfying.

The time they spank you for doing something wrong, or swing you around for doing something soo nice is irreplaceable. They punish you for wrong doing because they love you. They applaud you and cheer you on because of the love they have for you. What is surprising is that sometimes we forget to appreciate this few times we are with our parents. 

I know there were days when you wished to grow up so that you move out and be independent. Now that you’re all grown up, all you wanna do is go back to being a baby and enjoy the security that comes with staying with your parents. Many a times we take for granted the advice given. We wonder why they should interferer in our life when still a child and still when you are a fully grown adults. It’s because they want the best for you.

I always urge people around me to constantly check on their parents. Take their grand children to visit and learn a few things from their grandparents. But unfortunately what we do is alienate our children from their grandparents.

Time will come when you wish you had spent a little more time with your parents. You had taken a little more care of the. The loneliness that comes with being without a parent is groundbreaking. You reach out to your phone and dial their number only to receive a resounding and annoying sound of someone telling you “mteja hapatikani kwa sasa”.

You wish you had taken time to understand their needs and worries.

You have a lot of time to spend with your friends at nyama dens whilst your parents have nothing to eat or have everything to eat but all they want from you is just an afternoon to sit and talk.

A parent doesn’t require much, just a little attention, love and presence. They only want to know that their baby is doing fine. Why do you deny them that? You talk to your friends’ hours on but you can’t even spare 5mins to call your parents.

Go back and such yourself. Get that mentality that your parents are a bother from your freaking head and visit them. Get a blessing.

Remember them in prayers. Appreciate the little things they did for you like seeing you through school, paying your dowry, supporting you when your account had nothing and even the silent prayers they said for you. A parent’s prayer is worth soo much.

#chroniclesadvice: we are soo busy growing up we forget that our parents are also growing old.