Hi my people, I am so happy and thrilled by this week prompt. It is a very interesting topic that took me down the memory lane. You know, change is that one thing that is constant. Thank God we were not what we used to be. Meanwhile, I wasn't a bad person in time past, just that there were things done that were so childish and I wonder most times how I got to do them.
Hmm, there was this attitude I put forward whenever I was provoked at home, maybe bcos I don't like shouting or involving in arguments. All I used to do was to reject the food given to me at that particular time. If I was annoyed, the only way for me to protest or show my grievances was to keep mute and reject any food presented to me that day, whether breakfast, launch or diner till the person acknowledged his or her wrongs.
In fact, I sometimes went on hunger for about 2 days just to make people know I was angry. Funny right?
This behaviour actually started right from my childhood. My mother is a very strict person. She takes no nonsense from any child and punished us a lot when we did wrong but anytime I noticed she punishede on my right, I wouldn't eat whatever she gave me to show my grievances. This was meant to be in my past but I noticed I hardly left this behaviour.
I was still doing that even as a grown up, till last year that I realized how childish the behaviour was. Imagine, as a married woman, having gone through all the stress and cooked delicious meal, I would serve my husband and refused to eat just to show there was an issue I wasn't comfortable with. Oh, my God! I had really cheated myself. I never knew how childish my behaviour was until my husband started bringing sumptuous snacks at those moments he knew I wouldn't eat.
My husband would come back from work in the evening with a box of Pizza that very day we had misunderstanding, just to entice me and made me drop the childish behaviour but I wouldn't even eat, even when I felt so much like eating the goodies.
Then, one day, I talked to myself that rejecting delicious meals at every misunderstanding is the highest level of disservice I have been doing to myself. It never affected the other party but me.
Then, I decided that no matter how angered I am I would ot reject any food again. So now that I have realized how childish that behaviour was I eat and maxmize every opportunity that comes my way, even if I was provoked to the highest point.
This is my entry to the hivereachout weekly prompt.
Thanks for reading.
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