When I called home the other day my seven year old nephew,Adam insisted to speak to me. He spoke in such childish sincerity that he was going to mail some chocolate coated strawberries from Penang just for me.The strawberries were some of the goodies that my sister brought home from her trip to Cameron Highlands and not a delicacy we got to enjoy everyday.
I was sure there wasn’t so many and he still had to share with his brother but naughty rowdy Adam thought of me! And he had the intention of going through all the trouble of sending them by post just for me!!
At that very moment my heart swelled with so much love and happiness that my eyes almost brimmed with tears…
I tried to recall when was the last time something so simple yet so meaningful had touched my soul, and I couldn’t. We live in a life that we try our best to make it complicated. We set out standards high and would die trying to achieve it and in the process we abandon all the momentous events that really worth more than diamonds and gold.
It had been a long time since I last spent some time with my nieces and nephews and I missed them terribly. I believe Adam wanting to share his candy with me even with hundreds of miles stand between us was a seven year old’s way of telling that he was missing me too.
And knowing that is true happiness…
