An Unforgettable Event
Parents always know what’s best for the kids, right? I know that now. But when I was in the eighth grade, I was a pretty typical teenager, who managed to get into a full-blown fight with my mother every few days. We were always disagreeing on something and ended up bickering.
Last year, I began being obsessed about pop music. There was one album I wanted more than anything in the world, the latest one by Bon Jovi. But my mom was worried about my final exam, which was only two weeks away. She refused to buy me one and wanted me to be completely focused on schoolwork. “What about Chinese homework? Are you sure you finished revising everything?” “Don’t you have enough music CDs already?” I felt like screaming every time when I heard those lines. Didn’t she know that it is unbelievably tough to be a junior high school student in Taipei? Overloaded schoolwork. Endless assignments. And tons of tests every day! Just a little piece of music can help me so much. So I told her: “I won’t listen to it all day. I just want to take a rest once in a while!” But she said in reply: “Everybody else is working hard. Why should you be resting?” And she stormed out of my room angrily.