'You’ve written 2 compos about your mother, it’s time to move on': Benjamin Kheng recalls harsh message from teacher 1 year after mum's death

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Imagine grief as a box in the room of your mind. When something tragic occurs, you can expect the box to be front and centre. As time passes, perhaps you can put the box on a shelf — and it won't take up the entire room — but you can never really get rid of it. When local singer-songwriter Benjamin...

When something tragic occurs, you can expect the box to be front and centre. As time passes, perhaps you can put the box on a shelf — and it won't take up the entire room — but you can never really get rid of it.While people around him should have been sympathetic to the boy's plight, the now 33-year-old recently revealed a harsh message left by an English teacher when he wrote about her in class.

"My English teacher left a note in red, saying, 'You have written two compositions about your mother, I think it's time to move on'.""I'm glad I continued to shamelessly immortalise her in words and in song, and in who I'm trying to be," he wrote. In another, Benjamin can be seen sitting on his mother's lap at what appears to be a doctor's office.

He wrote other comments that he didn't think the teacher "meant any malice" but it took him "a while to understand her heart".Content creator Hannah Alkaff wrote: "There hasn't been a day where I haven't spoken about my mum. I'm glad I'm not alone."

Source: Education Headlines (educationheadlines.net)

 

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