Wednesday, August 20, 2014

My Aunt's Words




“It doesn’t matter having only a pair of clothes to wear. Just wash them well and don’t get stink. ” My aunt used to preach. Yet it took me years to understand such persuasion seeing her children blessed with innumerable clothes to name while I was naked from the waist up. I engraved them in my heart still.

When I left home and lived my own, that’s when her nuggets of wisdom struck me most–some people still stink in spite of the many clothes to wear. One can be clean inside out still even in the absence of abundance.

     

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