Sue Me.

This past Friday, we had a belated birthday gathering for my niece at my mother’s house. It was a family gathering and my sister prepared mushroom masala and nuts rice to contribute from our side and 3 bottles of wine. I had one white wine and a lychee wine and woke up with a headache.

We normally keep our gatherings to family because for a few years now, this is how my family rolls. Other than family gatherings, I don’t hang out with friends much- they’re fed up of asking me to come over too, since I don’t. One of my childhood friends invited me to her daughter’s beach birthday gathering yesterday but I didn’t go. I’m starting to find going out to be a tedious affair. I am usually the one who has to decide what conversation we are going to have, which direction the conversations take and I’m quite fed up of being around kids all over the place. It isn’t that I don’t like kids- I don’t like spending my day surrounded by children either. These are things people with kids generally don’t seem to understand because they love their kids so much. At the end of the day, I don’t force people to like my cat and I don’t want to be forced to interact with their kids. Of course, these are things that one cannot say openly without public backlash but that’s just the way it is… you chose your path, I chose mine and these paths don’t have to cross. That being said, I know I am great with children, I keep them entertained and understand that I was once a child… just not something I can deal with for more than 10 minutes at a time. Sue me.

I’m clearly not great at picking friends and most of my great friends are abroad. In Seychelles, people tend to change their group of friends often and it’s not surprising. in Seychelles, many people also prefer hanging out with their siblings- unless you don’t have any then in that case you don’t have a choice.

Last night my sister and I watched “Cloud Atlas”. It was a 3-hour long movie and in my opinion, it was like 3 different movies, set at 3 different eras but I honestly didn’t manage to make sense of it all at the end. Maybe I wasn’t paying that much attention or maybe it was intended to be that way?