It's Been A While
"Were you close to your grandparents?" It's a question that I never really expected myself to be stumped at. First thing that came to my mind is of course my paternal grandparents because in all honesty I don't even think my maternal grandparents cared that much about me. But I don't blame them - when you have over 40 grandchildren and more than 10 great-grandchildren (at that time) it's hard to keep track. But anyway, I ended up with the answer: "I won't say I'm super super close lah, but we were close." And of course I got chewed up by a friend because she was like "they treated you like a princess and you say you're not close??" I tried to defend myself and all that - saying how we were close but I wouldn't say like I had to see them everyday, that I wanted to be with them every single day all that, but I still loved them all the same. When I got back to my room and had time to myself, I started to realise: the re...