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never take your erasers for granted

credits: x

Pencil: I'm sorry
Eraser: For what? You didn't do anything wrong.
Pencil: I'm sorry cos you get hurt bcos of me. Whenever I made a mistake, you're always there to erase it. But as you make my mistakes vanish, you lose a part of yourself. You get smaller and smaller each time.
Eraser: That's true. But I don't really mind. You see, I was made to do this. I was made to help you whenever you do something wrong. Even though one day, I know I'll be gone and you'll replace me with a new one, I'm actually happy with my job. So please, stop worrying. I hate seeing you sad. :)

I found this conversation between the pencil and the eraser very inspirational. Parents are like the eraser whereas their children are the pencil. They're always there for their children, cleaning up their mistakes. Sometimes along the way... they get hurt, and become smaller (older, and eventually pass on).

Though their children will eventually find someone new (spouse), but parents are still happy with what they do for their children, and will always hate seeing their precious ones worrying, or sad.

"All my life, I've been the pencil.. And it pains me to see the eraser that is my parents getting smaller and smaller each day.

For I know that one day, all that I'm left with would be eraser shavings and memories of what I used to have...

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Know how I should be catching up on work but I came across this on fb and it's making me all emotional ;( Particularly so since I've been spending less time with my mom (and the small fatty) ever since school started. Okaes, I shall be objective and attribute part of this to my poor time management but seriously, the workload is crazy (and it just seems to get crazier by the minute). I wouldn't say that I didn't see this coming. In fact, I was very much prepared to devote time and effort into my studies. But I guess you could say I didn't expect I had to sacrifice family time to the extent that I'm doing so now. These days, it seems like I only get to see the fatties briefly in the morning and night. One of them would wake me up for school and they'd set off for work/school before I do. Then I'd go to school for almost the entire day before returning home late to see them watching tv, then head to bed after awhile. Yes, we do talk and tell each other bout our day, but sometimes I find myself listening half-heartedly simply because I'm too tired. Conversations like these are hardly 'satisfying' and even if I had the entire night to chat, it's never going to be enough. And thing is, I don't have the entire night.  :( This is when it gets really upsetting; I see the fatties everyday, but every day, I miss them more and more. ;( 

This better be worth it.