Good Beginning
Good Beginning
I have often heard of how terrible/good the relationship is between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law in China. Lately, a pop TV serial program named 双面胶 reflects how difficult to deal with this kind of relationship, which makes people
who will face it like me scared, more or less. However, my worries of it are slightly swept away by reading the touching true story happened on mother-in-law and daughter-in-law in Shenzhen. It was universally reported that a mid-age woman
had taken care of her mother-in-law whom is deaf and dumb, of her father-in-law
whom has come down with cancer in her hometown Chongqing over 10 years. After her father-in-law died, she even headed to Shenzhen as a normal worker with her mother-in-law to make her family’s heads above water.
In those stories happens every day, bad or good, I have been being a bystander.
But it is absolutely different this time. Around one month ago, when my boy friend told me that his parents would come to Shenzhen for winter, I became more and
more nervous as time flew quickly, although I once met her mother twice in his
home. To be frank, I even didn’t know what I worried about. To be looked down
upon? To be mistreated? Impossible! Finally this day came. It was last Saturday.
It was extraordinarily sunny. I had been thinking over what I should call them
in the car which my boy friend’s company sent out to pick up his parents in railway station. Uncle and aunt? Dad and mom? I was in bad confusion. Walking up
to his parents on the platform nearer and nearer, I clearly saw they both put smile on the faces, especially his mother. I naturally called them mom and dad. Then we joyfully headed to exit with heavy luggages. At that time, I felt relaxed
that I had never had.
We freely talked about Shenzhen with my introduction of what they were seeing through car windows to them one by one on the way home. They listened interestedly
and asked sometimes. Haft an hour later we arrived home and his son went on working. I was alone with his parents. I began to worry about how to get along with
them, but not so heavy as before. Luckily, they were busy with tidying luggages
. I didn’t know where I should put those things, so I stood beside them like a
log. In a minute, they praised us for keeping house clean and asked me to put their luggages in place. The atmosphere got soft gradually. I suggested them taking a bath and having a good rest after getting luggages done. But they didn’t feel tired and looked energetic. I was awfully surprised at what they succeeding did: cleaned wardrobes, bins and washing room without rest halfway. Later, they cooked yum supper and we had it happily.
The next day, they got up early and mom cooked porridge for breakfast for us. I
was ashamed of not getting up earlier at that time, and said to them that you should sleep more. They smiled, “We have been used to getting up early. You youth
likes sleeping later, so you can sleep later on weekends as you like.” I’ve
got nothing to reply but I was quite happy in my heart for their understanding.
They have been cleaning house, trimming flowers on the balcony that morning. In
the afternoon, we went to supermarket together on foot. We bought many things,
of which several packages of pure milk that his dad bought and told us to drink
it every day to be stronger. For the rest of that day, we cooked together and watched TV with sunflower seeds, chitchatted. In a word, we had a nice day.
I know it is just beginning to get along with my future parents-in-law. So nice
the beginning is that I deeply believe a happy family will be waiting for me. I
appreciated what they did for me and I will do my best to justify what we always say “Good beginning is half done.”
Happily, Nicole
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