Don't postpone!

One of the things that I don't have time for these days is family. Horrible  I know but I don't really make these decisions intentionally. I do try to make time for family, whenever I can. I mean I am supposed to but for some strange reason I end up tending to all my other commitments except family.

However today I realized what I had missed out most on. My family. I was soooooooo busy these past few days to see all of these. I had sportsmeet then debate then cricket tournament then teachers' day celebrations then science exbition and finally the library day. And because of all of this I have been constantly staying after school and even coming to school on weekends. I also had classes at night so as soon as I came home from school at five I would rush to get ready cause I had classes at six thirty. And I also had my math exams this month so I had to study for that I had a lot more extra math classes as well which added more to my already busy schedule. And to add to that I had school work and homework. A/L science I hard and without self study it would be disastrous.

So on top of all these how could I have time to spend with my family? Well I could have but I didn't set my priorities straight. After a long day at school and classes I end up using the phone, either checking WhatsApp or scrolling through my Instagram. I don't know why but I guess after seeing too many people and learning a lot about current and nerves and aldehydes I prefer the quietness if my room and some amazing photography to look at. But who knew that it would all lead to being ignorant about what happens at my own home.

On Sunday that is the 16th, I went to school to help with the library day deco and to practice the drama and choir and I came home at around six. After doing all the necessities I ended up watching 'Home', a fantastic and adorable animated movie. It was around eight at night when mama was like help Ibrahim, my younger brother, with his school work.

After grumbling a bit I decided 'okay fine I would do it'. Little did I know that it would end up with me writing this blog post.

I checked his math books first and he had some incompleted work so I decided let him finish that first before going on with his homework.

The work was simple addition and subtraction of the numbers in hundreds. But my brother couldn't really do it. I mean he could do the addition bit but he found the subtraction part hard. He could subtract numbers in tens (example: 10 - 5) but in hundreds, he found it hard (example : 399 - 10)

And it made me realize how much I had missed home. How much my mother was struggling to teach him the basics. How much he was struggling with his basics. Me being the eldest I should have realized my responsibilities earlier. Even now its not too late for me but I still wish that i could'be focused more at home. I wished that I could have helped my brother a bit more in his studies.

He is a boy who is capable of a lot of things he just needs some more extra time than the other boys his age.

Bottom line of this post is that, don't postpone what you can do today to tomorrow. It may already be too late to do it and also know that you should always make time for family.

Take care
=)❤sammy