Q1.(B)
A relationship with an elder can be a double edged sword. Just like the sea, it can float a ship, so can it sink it. A relationship with an elder requires mutual respect, love and care. An elder may not only be a teacher, an instructor or a mentor. An elder can be someone that I can look up to, pour my hearts out to, share my pain and laughter with, and enjoy life with. One can either live with the elder the way i stated above, or another side of life. A relationship with an elder can be one that is bitter and full of hatred. One can treat an elder as someone very troublesome, irritating and noisy. This kind of people will never feel the true way of life. The relationship I am having with my most respected elder, my mother is the first.
As I was a child, my mother has always looked after me, cared for me, worried for me, and most importantly, loved me. When I was a child, I can remember my mother playing with the energetic me. We loved each other’s company, and we cherished every moment of it. Year by year passed, I grew up with time, and my mother grew old as time passed. I still remember when my mother’s hair was a shiny black colour, and as I grew to be a teenager, I noticed the obvious changes in my mother’s body. Wrinkles started to grow, her hair started greying, and she walked slower than ever before. We always shared each other’s worries. Mine about school, about the philosophy of life. Hers about financial problems, her worries for both me and my brother. I started to understand what life meant. It did not revolve around me, it did not only contain me and my small little world. I had to grow up, I had to age.
The whole time i was having this happy relationship with my mother, I have never thought about what age would bring us humans into. As I started to age and mature, the thought of death started to haunt me. At that time, my grandmother passed away. I did not understand why human die, and what the purpose of dying or living is. After that, i started pondering about when death would come to me or my family, and how I would react to it.
I feel that we must face life and death with bravery and happiness, not sorrow and trying to escape it. When it comes, we should not escape it, but welcome it in a positive attitude. When death comes to us, there is no way to escape it anyway. So we might as well live our life to the fullest, and appreciate life as it was given to us, and appreciate the ones around us, and most importantly, cherish all your relationships.
