title: Mummy Dearest.
date: 24 May 2009
time: 24.5.09
Dearest Mum,
I would like to share with you something I have been waiting to share and tell for the past few days. Time were never on our side and I blame myself for having such doubts on what you would thought of this girl you once called stupid for being too in love.
When we talked about my love life, you never have the confidence for me to stay long with anyone just like everyone else in this world. I always thought that it is a habit that I could not end, an addiction for endless attention and love, a hunger for the care that I lacked before. But then tonight it dawned on me, I am this way because this is the way everyone believed me to be. As long as I do not stick to one, as long as I could jump from one relationship to another, I would not be stupid and I would not be the burden you don’t want to bear.
I remember the day you called me stupid in front of the house. You asked me, “Why are you so stupid Liss? Why do you make yourself this way?” You knew the answer, yet you still asked me because I remember you once were the way I was – on the floor, crying, searching for that strong pillar to hold you up, to give you strength, to understand, to let go. After all of it, you hugged me and told me, don’t be so stupid anymore. So I stopped believing in love.
Another came along and broke my heart – but you knew along the way, I was never loyal, even when I didn’t tell you about it. You knew I was in love with him, and at the same time, you knew being far would kill it all. You let it be, you never ask me again. One day the pain was too bad for me to handle and I knocked on your door. “Mum, he was with me just for revenged.” I said through the heavy sobs and tears. You hugged me close and said, “Its okay. There’s one eternal love – Allah s.w.t.. Just focus on your studies for now. Pray and study. It will be okay.” You said it all over again till my sobs subsides and I was finally sleeping. You never asked me again after that.
I bring home a couple of guys home afterwards. I didn’t tell you about those in KL and Melaka. I didn’t tell you about my reunion with Fidzel. I just told you that he’s helping me with my work. Somehow, I feel that your reaction would just be the same as Afiq. A disappointment that stabs through my heart far worst than any of those whom ever broke my heart because I needed you to believe in me, to support me, to give the encouragement that would boost my confidence up.
Well here is something I have wanted to tell you for the past couple of weeks.
I am in a relationship again mum. I bet you knew that through your Facebook. I also bet that you felt it would only be for a short while - toys that I found interesting then and there. Once boredom strikes me, it would be thrown away. I do not want to be that kind of person anymore mum. I want you to believe in me. I want you to encourage me. I want you to be a part of this.
He is me, mum. We were born on the same day, same year, almost the same time. We are practically twins of different parents. We could talk with our mouth shut; we could talk through our eyes. We share tons of things in common and the similarity strikes me as the bond that we felt is important. He wants what I want and I want what he wants. I know we are still new, but I need you to believe that we could make it, somehow, some way, now.
Coincidence after coincidence bumped into us and we could not ignore it any longer. We are confused mum, I am confused. I need you to walk me through this, but when I look into your eyes, I see all your answers, silence – as it has always been. I remember your sinister words that I took lightly once. It rang in my ear each time I want to tell you about this. It stopped me in the middle of my track. It made me wonder if you would just be like Afiq. The answer came clear, the answer need not be said – yes, you would.
I just want you to believe in me that I could do this mum. I want to tell you about him and how I feel so happy. I want to talk about the coincidence that struck us nonstop. I want you to be apart of all of this, just as his mum does. I want you to care about our relationship just as you cared about Lidia’s.
I’ve been away for 6 years mum and not once I felt you actually talked to me the way you talked to Lidia tonight. The bond you have with the others is something I envy, something that I wish I had. But I am an adult. I am supposedly free and mature - a grown woman who needs no mother to guide her but need to make her own mistakes and learn from them. Maybe that is why you didn’t care. Maybe that is why you turned a blind eye against all of it. Maybe that is just the way it is between us.
These are the things I want to tell you mum, tonight. But you were too busy lending your ears to others that needed it more. I am just the listening ear, the helpful hands, the workforce to lighten your burden. I take, but I can’t give – yet. I wish I can. I just want to share, but I can’t. I just need you to believe, tell me you believe, but I know it won’t happen. So it’s okay. Maybe I understand it now. I Love You Mom, even when this heart of mine bleeds because of you.
-Liss.Labels: teardrops of silence
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