Home and away

A home is a home only if you treat it like one. Otherwise, it is just another place to sleep, shower, and eat.

Similarly, family is family only if you start treating them like one. Otherwise, the spouse is just another roommate that you dine with every day. Children are just little human beings that you have to feed and bathe.
A Hi or Bye is hard to come by. What more, with stories of everyday life.
After some time, everyone is just tired of making an effort.
Hence, amicable separation and co-parenting would probably be the best way to go.

7 July

Al-Fatihah to my mother, Seniah binti Omar – whose love and sacrifices have been taken for granted by the people around her.

Reminiscing back on what she had to go through as a newlywed, a wife and a mother with no asset in her name nor an income – she could have lived better. But she persevered. As kids back then, all we could do was watch because we had no idea how we could have helped.

Perhaps death was the best escape.

Although she succumbed to her illness due to post-COVID complications, I wished other people had taken her place. Not her. She went too soon.