I spent the entire day with two of my aunts and had a wonderful time.
It wasn’t a chore and I wasn’t constantly thinking of excuses to get away. In our youth, the thought of time spent as obligation just coloured any possibility that such outings could be anything but fun. The easiest thing to do to get out of this obligation quickly is to buy them dinner or a nice gift for not spending enough time with them but that would be the easy way out and disrespectful.
I heard my aunt might have broken her toe and was really just playing it safe by staying near the hotel this trip. Rushed to pick them up as I figured they’d have a better time in KL with me driving them around rather than stuck around the Royal Bintang.
We visited Thean Hou Temple, dipped our feet for fish to eat away our dead skin, had tea at Delicious in Bangsar, went shopping for essential oils, visited my cats, had steamboat dinner and shopped for groceries before I dropped them off at their hotel.
I came away from today with even more stories of my mischievous childhood and with a deeper relationship with two women who had cared for me as I was growing up.
Lesson of the day … family is priceless.
can’t help but agree with you more… appreciation of family does happened in my 30s.
your aunties must have a great time