"The Diary" #1 - The Kid
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Script (May not be 100% correct, but close enough):
I was born in 2005. Yes, I'm old now. It's just crazy how time flies so quickly. I still remember some old memories in my head, though they're not 100% correct. But at least it's very close to what I can still remember. And this is the first episode, "THE KID".
My mom told me I was a pretty fat baby back then. There's even a picture of me as a baby, which I still keep in my bedroom. She even made a joke about my weight, stating: "You were so fat, that no one could hold you in their arms, even your dad." I don't know if that's true or not, but to be fair, I was really fat as a kid. She also said that when they brought me back home after a few months at the hospital, everyone was surprised at how fat I was. Looking back now, it does hurt my feelings.
She said that the first time that I shat myself, she took the shit and rubbed it on the wall. It's really weird, and disgusting too. To this day, I still wondered why she did that. I once asked my dad, and he said it was part of our culture. It's pretty disgusting for sure, but people believed that it would bring good luck to their families. It's pretty weird, right?
Anyway, since then, I started to learn about what family was. The first word I ever said was "Dad". Pretty crazy, right? To be fair though, I'm much more closely to my cousin. I still keep in touch with him, even though he's in Laos now, and the fact that we've been so close for nearly 15 years. I consider him my best friend ever. Honestly, if we were getting older in the future, we could still think of the jokes and the good old memories that we did together when we were young and still laughed off it. I had mad respect for him, for what he had done to my life.
Now let's talk about my parents. I swear to God, they were much more different back then. They treated me well, but they were so strict too. Typical Asian parents. But I know that back then, they loved me so much, and I can somehow feel it. But now they were just mad at everything I did. That did affect my childhood a lot, especially some of my first years at kindergarten.
You may find it weird, but I went to 3 different kindergartens when I was a kid. Yes, I went to a different one after each year. I had absolutely nothing in my mind when talking about the first one. Possibly because I was too young, or it just didn't make any impression on me. So we'll skip that one. The next one is kinda interesting. My dad told me that on the first day, I was crying my eyeballs out. I was so scared because my dad's gonna leave me there - a place that was new, strange and quite scary. I still remembered that I was so scared of the new teachers that I couldn't talk with anybody. I just sat alone like a pile of crap in the corner of the room, while everyone else just chilling. I was so scared and confused at the same time. I couldn't even talk with anybody. Thank goodness, I was transferred to another kindergarten for the third time. But it was different. I joined many fun activities there, like dancing, singing, reading, coloring, etc. Everything was just so fun. And most importantly, I got my first friends. That was no doubt my biggest achievement as a kid.
To sum it up, I just wanna say that we all love ourselves as kids. The world was just so different back then. It didn't get spoiled by the Internet, smartphones, or anything bad at all. Kids were just so innocent and enjoying their lives, which is an extremely rare thing now. If I got a wish, I would be happy to be young once again and just enjoy the nostalgia. But little did I know back then when I went to primary school, everything changed hard...
In the next episode, "Growing Up pt. I", I will be discussing my life when I went to primary school, about my friends, my achievements, and everything untold will get revealed.
See you next Saturday!