Since my mother and father handed away, I’ve solely been to my hometown throughout holidays or particular anniversaries, making it onerous for me to acknowledge relations by title, although their faces are acquainted.
I’ve lengthy wished to debate younger individuals’s diminishing reference to relations. My hometown is in Hai Duong province in northern Vietnam, however now my household lives in Quang Ninh, one other northern province.
When my mother and father had been alive, we regularly visited our hometown, not simply on holidays. However since they died 20 years in the past, my visits to Hai Duong are restricted to the Tet Lunar New 12 months and my mother and father’ demise anniversaries solely. I even really feel uneasy staying in a single day throughout these visits.
So I need to admit, amongst my relations there, I’m not sure who continues to be alive and who has handed away. When we now have gatherings throughout my journeys to Hai Duong, many faces are acquainted to me, however their names escape me.
At a latest funeral in my hometown, my youthful brother pointed at some individuals and requested about our relation to them. I might solely snigger, recognizing them as relations however unclear on specifics of our relationships.
Solely those that have been away from their hometowns for a very long time, like me, might perceive such awkwardness. If I’m on this scenario, how can I count on my future generations to keep up their roots?
What are your ideas on this matter?