In a month

I always get homesick this time during a year. My mum rang me last night and gave me a good luck for my exams. Her call always makes me happy.

Looking back, she has never ever forced me to study. She always pushes my back with a "soft touch", so that I don't feel any pressuer. Well, both of my parents have never ever forced me to do something. They always make me decide what I want to do. I think, in some way, it must have been sometimes difficult for them to do so, as both of them are from such academic-career-based and somehow very consarvative families. Many of my friends even used to tell me "your parents are so generous about what you are doing. Don't you think?".

My mum is the best listener and advisor in the world. I've realized that when she gives me advice, she never uses the term "should" and she never uses the subject "you". I mean, she never tells me what I should do. She always tells me what she would do, in which way, she gives me some hint that leads me to decide what I should do. Someday, when I have some room in my mind to think about some advice to somebody important to me, I would love to follow my mum's way.

Anyway, I was soooo happy to talk to my mum and I'm very motivated now!

Okay, study time! More to do than I have done.

Kx