I Must Be Getting Old (I)

I was imparting my wisdom to my daughter or in Malay, it’s called berleter, when my daughter finished my sentence or rather she said something along the lines of what I was saying. I pivoted and said that she is smart to always understand what I am trying to say, but she replied that it is just that “you always tell before you explain.”

I am not really sure what she means by that but my understanding is that I went on a longggg winded story about a moral or lesson, before finally coming to the lesson to be learned itself. To me that sounds like I am babbling and I am acting like old men who lectures the young.

So yes, I feel I am getting old, especially when I was cut off from delivering my lecture to my daughter. I guess I need to slow down with the talk and drilling my beliefs into her, but rather to practice what I preach, more fervently, instead.

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