“Daddy!” yells a four-year-old boy.
“Go back inside!” said his mom.
“When is Dad coming home, Ma?” the boy asked his mom.
“Daddy will arrive soon.” Then a silence.
I was hearing this conversation outside my bedroom window. And I was feeling envy a lot! It was my cousin and her son. Today is Friday night, the schedule day of her husband to come home. He is a seaman; once a week he has a day off from work. At least they have one day a week to be together and spend time as a family. They are expecting a new baby soon, and are hoping for a baby girl, or at least that’s what her husband desires. Well, I know why her husband wishes for a girl. That is to look exactly like her!
Actually, everyone could surely comment, “Oh, is that her husband? Is there no other guy to be better than him?” That will be the first opinion of anyone could see them together. But the fact is, there is nothing wrong about her husband. It is just that my cousin is too beautiful for him! My cousin could be a ramp model today if she did not get pregnant unexpectedly and have no plan about it. She had no choice but to marry him and build a family, then a career.
The truth is, I have been so jealous of them. Not their relationship but the fact that they have at least a time to be together! But sometimes, they don’t know how to use it and they argue and fight because of some issues. Yes, I knew what their issues were. My cousin did not hide anything from me about their problems and most of their fights. If we have the chance to talk, we are both open to each other about the happenings and current situation of our marriage. We could always talk, but I have this attitude of laziness to talk a person personally often like every day. So even how she wants me to come over to her house, which is few steps away, and I’d rather stay at home ... Well, I guess, it is my illness to be like that attitude already.
