Parental Love

SINCE we decided to buy a car for our little daughter, my wife and I were busy surveying car market online. Though there were some significant ease on car policies as a part of reform in Myanmar, cars are still expensive for an ordinary people like us. Fortunately, it have become reachable for some middle class families nowadays. It is, therefore, not easy task to decide on whether pickup or saloon or MPV. We want to spend our hard earn money wisely while fulfilling our promise to our little daughter because we may not afford to buy another car in the near future.

She is smart and used to tell her relatives that her car will arrive sooner by Dad. In last visit, we asked her what she wants most and her answer was clearly a motorcar. We had no way but to promise her buy a car as a young girl. But she seem no forgot such promise made by parent. Recently her preschool made artistic and physical competition and she entered her first ever competition with fellow students. She brought back home a second price from dancing. Few days later, she come back home with a CD in which their competition are recording. The CD begins with a greeting to incoming families who arrive by their own cars. Perhaps the preschool management wanted to boast that how rich children are attending their service to others.

My daughter suddenly shows her aunts that those are her friends on screen. Some of her friends are coming by cars and she talks at them that next year I'll come to class by my own car like you. My sisters were amazed to learn what she has talked. How determined she is? At 3.5 years, she has been such manner to compare with her peers. We were sadden when my sister shares the incident. My wife asked me to start finding a suitable car for our little princess without delaying. We initially intended to buy a car only after we return Myanmar for permanent. Now circumstance make us rush to buy a car so as not to make her feel inferior against her wealthy classmates. Currently, she is commuting by school's ferry car and it take prolong time between school and home. Some day she'll arrive home in sleeping. Other rainy day, she'll come back home in wet and next day she is likely to take MC for sick. To date, we dare not to own a car. Now we have to buy a red car that she always like to please her. May be this is called parental love which will not be differ for every parent on this planet.