my beloved "ompung"

Ompung is a batak word for grandparent. Ompung boru will be grandmother. Here she is with my youngest sister and my husband.

The 5 of us were at Plaza Senayan to take her new glassess. They're pretty glasses, aren't they? Yet still she said they didn't help her reading.

At the age of almost 88, she is a survivor. She has survived a lot of troubles in her life. Her husband death to cancer was one extra ordinary experience not only for her but also for us.

She complains a lot lately which it wasn't her previously. This past year, she had her downfall, she complains on her food, her chewing, her walking, her sleeping, her appetite, her operated eyes, her breathing, her life.
She said she is tired. She hates the life now where she almost can not do so many things.

I am sad for her. I felt pity but at the most of time I was angry at her. Because she wasn't like that before. She used to be enjoying life, but now she was bitching almost about anything, and always wanted to take control over anything also, and her complains made all of us who tried to serve her felt terrible and it was so bad.

At the end it was all bad feeling. My husband tried hard to remind me to control my emotion on her. Sadly I sometimes went pass through it, and I regret it.

Well,.. it is hard to realize that everybody will turn old someday. It is sad to see the declining quality of life of my ompung after a while. When we are old, it is frustating not be able to do anything we want. It's just crazy. Scary and weird.

She survived mostly due to her faith to dear God. She and all of us believe that God grant her super bless for her to be here today at this time. She fears God, and it is a wonderful thing to see in a grandmother. Not being able to read her Bible anymore I guess to be the reason why she acted all that way. Poor her.

I dont know how much longer she will survive this so I guess I will just be patient with her, as she is my favorite grandmother, and my closest grandparent ever. I love her so dearly, and surely will miss her when she is gone. I love you ompung.