My mother was a worrywart

As the eldest of her three sons, it bothered me quite a bit. I thought that my role in the family was to alleviate my parents’ worries, not to be the cause for them.

She had similar sentiments when I first expressed an interest in journalism. As a former software engineer, she questioned my choice of studying communications instead of taking up computer science or business. To be fair, those were – and still are – much more lucrative fields to pursue a career in.

Despite her protests, I continued on the path to becoming a journalist, even securing an internship at TNP in 2012. I covered anything from the entertainment and lifestyle scenes to crime and heartland stories.One day, my mum asked if I had a story coming out in that morning’s paper. Apparently, she’d been buying issues of TNP every day so that she could cut out my stories, laminate them, and compile the snippets in an album.

That’s when I realised what it really meant for my mother to worry. Sure, she would not agree with every decision I made, but she would always be proud of me nonetheless. I stumbled upon the cut-outs of my TNP stories again this year while spring cleaning. Finding those newspaper clippings reminded me that when my mum said that she worried about me, that was just her way of saying that she loved me.

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