Greetings People!
I know you're hitting the weekend softly馃憣
I don't have a sweet record when it comes to grandma/grandpa relationship stuffl like the way other people vibe about theirs. It's not like I don't have a grandmother/grandfather; sure, I do but...馃
The only elderly person I was opportuned to be very close to (family relationship) was my maternal grandma. Yes, there was a paternal grandma, but she wasn't as accommodating as the maternal grandma, hence we moved to the maternal side.
Way back, I can't remember the years, but I was in secondary school then, and we used to visit Grandma for holidays. My dad would bundle all of us on his bike and drop us at Grandma's place, a village in Edo State.
Grandma's place is a typical village, and the people there used to treat us like people from the town, while we came from a village too.馃檱
Grandma always makes our days enjoyable by preparing sweet native delicacies with bush meat. Mehn, Edo Land is blessed with bushmeat, and these animals are easily caught. The animals there are not sensible at all, because how do you explain that a trap they set within 30 minutes has an animal caught on it?
Whenever it's market day, just forgerrit, because we'll be begging her to stop supplying food because our stomachs would be prompting to burst.
We usually go to the farm, but the "farm food" we eat there at the farm is usually more than the work we do.
Also, the place has fruits everywhere and we don't get shouted at if when we go and pluck. It was there I had the sweetest taste of a cherry and I Concluded that cherry originated from there.
Grandma used to be happy anytime we come around, like she usually used us to show off. Fine grandchildren!
All these made us love going there for holidays, but just like life will have it, we grew up and began to chase our personal quests, and the time for such holiday visitation suddenly disappeared into thin air.
At some time, she was the one coming around for visitation when she misses us so much, but we were not always around because of school.
Then death came...
Yeah, it was last year, exactly in March, when she passed on after battling with a severe illness. My mother isn't her only child, but because of the bond between her and our family, she always stays in our house while her other children come to visit.
Yes, she died in our house, and I know she was happy about that.
She stayed with us all through the two years Christmas season while fighting the sickness. It was around March, after we'd all traveled back, that she passed on.
We(I and my siblings) felt her death, but it wasn't severe compared to how it affected my mother (her daughter), and that's maybe why we weren't bonding well for a long time.
That's the only elderly family member I was once close to.
Currently, I have a lot of 'Mamas and Papas' at my home church, and whenever I visit, we always relate well.
Also, my paternal grandma is still alive, but we don't bond well like that. She's currently married to the king (the oldest man in the community is seen as the king) and lives in the palace. I'm supposed to be flocking around the palace because of such privilege, but my system always lacks such a vibe.
Thanks for reading.
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