Yesterday I was talking about our relatives with my mother.

My mother said that it was sad to hear anything about her brothers and sisters' kids now. (Kids = they are all grown-ups actually.)

Those kids became showing no respect to their parents and relatives (including me and my sister of course).

When we were all kids, we used to have a very close relationship. We saw each other almost at least once a month, and we talked about everything. We had a lot of fun with each other. However, this time when my sister Ophelia went to Hong Kong (she hasn't gone to Hong Kong for almost 5 years), most of them didn't even bother to see her, particulary the older ones.

It is very obvious that the older ones don't want to see us because they are jealous of us. I don't want to use the word "jealous", cus' that makes me sound like a jerk....but it is true. (Ophelia and I are the only ones who can graduate from university so far.) It is, of course, no big deal being graduate from an university, I believe we are still very ignorant about society and we are never arrogant just because we are a little bit more educated (Afterall, there are millions of people who are well-educated in the world). We are always kind to them, and show respect to them. We definitely want to see them whenever we go to Hong Kong. Unfortunately, we don't receive the same response. They don't bother to see and talk to us. They avoid us. In fact, the more they are rude to us, the more jealous they appear.

Moreover, I heard a lot of bad things about how they treated their siblings and parents. The higher expectation their parents have to their children, the more disappinted they are. Although this is sad, it is not a surprising result. Nowadays, I found a lot of teenagers in Hong Kong consider their friends, instead of their parents and siblings, as more important people to them. Some of them want to get married as soon as possible just because they want to get rid of their parents. Some of them have not been talking to their siblings for almost one year (although they are living under the same roof). Some of them are making bad friends and having a very bad relationship with their families. On the whole, everything I heard was sad news.

This is one of the reasons why I don't want to go to Hong Kong now, despite the fact that I was born there. However, I do want to see my aunts and uncles. Afterall, they are the ones who always welcome us.