Chapter 253

The house is practically empty save for the gardener who came in to check on the little flowers my aunt has decided to cultivate in the garden, and the washer woman who helps with the laundry sometimes.

I don't think my aunt trusts her washing machines as much as she trust the price at which they were bought. I mean what's the sense in buying a washing machine that is worth thousands of US dollars, only for you to always employ someone else to help you operate it. I thought those came with self automated systems, you just had to dump your clothes and soap inside and then it will carry out the rest of the job.

The washer woman for all her open tranquility and disgust of such machines had started using it quite easily now. I'm guessing she has a daughter who is going to be my age in a few more years and I select some of the clothes that I did not wear anymore and hand it over to her in a nice little bag.

She beams happiness at this and my heart practically melts.

I can't say that I don't know of the situation of some other people. I'm guessing that I am quite fortunate having parents who were well off before they died. I knew there were some people whom even when their parents were still living could not find enough to eat, there are some people who have to substitute to giving their children out to stay with others just so they can find something to put on the table for the other kids each and every day.

As much as I can say that my country is a financially stable one, there's still a bit of poverty in the streets wherever you look. There's still that kid who doesn't have enough clothes in your class, there's still that kid who doesn't have enough and who looks like he could do better with more.

There's always that one person who could definitely be better with more, and so I try my best to remember when she comes over. Even if the pay my aunt is giving her is a little bit this nice, I can't really say that it is enough to feed seven children.

Even the number of kids she has always manages to surprise me. I mean why would you go on and have seven kids. When she had told me, the look of shock that was on my face was unrivaled by any other. I think that i just can't fathom the thought of giving birth to seven children, it scares the hell out of me but with the way she talked about the love between her and her husband, with the way she talked about what existed between the two of them before they finally got married, I realise that this is just life on its own this is simply life happening.

Sometimes it goes well for some, sometimes it doesn't go well for others. Them having seven kids is not really her fault is it.