People I Dislike

So the other day Cuong had his Honor Roll Breakfast for third quarter. I stayed up really late to study because it was still finals time (so this was three weeks ago I guess) and woke up about 15 minutes before the breakfast was to start. I threw on clothes, jumped in my car, and sped over to Cuong’s school. Of course there was no parking so I had to park on the side of the school’s sport field. As we were getting food, cousin Ny comes over with a bowl of fruit and asks me what this breakfast is really for and we explain it to him. At first we thought he was lost or confused or something but then we found out that he made A/B Honor Roll and was therefore invited to the breakfast. None of his family came so he sat with us. I took pictures for him and such (which I should develop soon maybe) and everything went fine. He didn’t seem to eat much but then again we didn’t know him as a big eater. So later on during the morning Mother asked cousin Ny where his family was and he tells her that his mother is at work and his father is at home. We asked why his father didn’t come over with him but I can’t remember his answer. We then just assumed that seeing as how at the beginning of the breakfast cousin Ny had come over to me unsure of what the breakfast was exactly, his father also didn’t know what it was and that was why he wasn’t there.

After the breakfast Mother takes Ny’s certificate from him so she can take it over to his house (I guess so he doesn’t lose it? She always took mine and Cuong’s away after our breakfasts but w.e.). When she gets home I find out that Ny’s father was actually at work but guess who was home? Everyone else. His older brother and sister, his aunts, uncle. Now OK, at first I thought, his own family didn’t come because they might not have know what the breakfast was, but then I find out that 5th Aunt had fully explained what it was to them. They knew what it was and yet they didn’t come. His parents had to work, fine, but what about his older brother and sister? They don’t have any liberty in that house so I doubt they were tired from staying out late, and they’re definitely not currently in school so they weren’t up late studying or anything. The house is right next to the school. Literally, one looks out the windows of the cafeteria and there is their house, just a few feet away. 5th Aunt told Mother that she’d already taken cousin Ny out to eat as a congratulations but taking him out for a meal is different than coming to his Honors breakfast. The odd thing is that Great-Aunt’s family hasn’t before and possibly will not ever get another chance to attend an Honors breakfast. At the rate that my other cousins are going I doubt any of my aunts or Great-Aunt will have another chance to go to an Honors breakfast and yet they don’t bother doing to cousin Ny’s. I know that when cousin Ny and his family came over last year the assumption was that he wouldn’t amount to anything educationally because he just attached himself to cousin Darren’s games. That, however, should make my Great-Aunt’s family even more excited to go to cousin Ny’s Honor Roll breakfast, one would think. I also know that cousin Ny’s immediate family is not getting along well with Great-Aunt and the rest of the family but cousin Ny didn’t have any part in that. He’s only a 6th grader! And finally, I guess the most fault should be that of cousin Ny’s older brother and sister. Come on! They live half a minute away from the school! They could have woken up 5 minutes before the event started and gotten ready and made it there in time and looked nice! Instead of me speeding there and looking like a complete mess with my eyes half closed.

I usually don’t bother with things happening over at Great-Aunt’s house but I hate that all the stuff that’s happening is negatively affecting the children. I really dislike ignorant, stupid people and a branch of that would be ignorant, uncaring people. It’s possible that this is spurred by the fact that I’ve had to take care of old people as well as young children all my life and still do. Whatever it is, my blood just boils when I see old people or young kids being mistreated. Of course sometimes the young kids deserve it, and maybe once every now and then the old people might’ve done something to deserve it too, probably in their youth. But in their old age does that really matter so much for them to be ill-treated?

 

Now I don’t necessarily like old people or young kids. I don’t like talking to or taking care of them but I don’t feel that that is any excuse to treat them wrongly. I really got angry when cousin Ny was being neglected by his siblings and his aunts and uncles just because the aunts and uncles dislike cousin Ny’s parents. I have no excuse for his older siblings aside from that they’re lazy.

I know that they’re all somewhat nice, kind people over there, maybe. But the negligence really ticks me off. Cousin Ny might or might not be one of those kids who is motivated to do well for himself. He made the Honor Roll by himself, I know that much. Aunts and Uncle are completely devoted to making sure cousin Darren and new cousin Albert has enough things to play with. If they love those two so much and yet still ignore those two’s education then they definitely are not helping cousin Ny with his schooling. His parents don’t know English, his brother and parents are still taking ESL courses and his sister told me she only knows enough to have simple conversations. I’m proud of cousin Ny even if his family isn’t and I hope he can ignore their negligence and become successful on his own.

I guess the point of this was that I really dislike ignorant, negligent, stupid people. It’s fine to dislike responsibility or dislike dealing with certain people but that’s completely personal preference. Distaste for something or someone should not mean illtreating others that don’t deserve it.

I’m going to try my best to figure out how to print photos off my printer because I think cousin Ny deserves some nice memories of his Honor Roll breakfast. It made me sad to see him down the whole time. He’s confused enough being a kid who just came from VN in November, it sucks that he has no one supporting him when he’s doing so well.