Hiya my deer baby boy Shiv,
I can't believe you can read now! 媽媽好為你驕傲，你是世界上最棒的孩子！Oh wait, caan you read Chinese? How about this: "Estoy tan orgulloso de ti!" or this: "Je suis fier de toi, Bravo!" and this? -- "나는 당신이 너무 자랑 스럽습니다!" You are learning Korean, aren't you?
Ok ok, you can learn whatever languages you wnat in the world, later, okay?
Oh, did I misspell some words in English? You know English is not my mother tongue alright? 我從小又沒學過英文，當然可能犯錯啦！媽媽英文已經很好了好不好？Why not you smarty pants find out all tha misspelled words adn draw a line under them. Bat don't mess up my beautiful letter Okie?
So why do I write you a letter today? I don't know, maybe because mama is missing you when you are at school having fun with all of your friends and learning all tha smarty pants knowledge.
Gonggong used to write me a lot of letters, handwritten in diary notebooks when I was your age, probably younger. At that time he was studying medicine at a college far away from hame. If you don't know how to read Chinese, you won't understand them, ha! Only mama has the superpower to read Chinese, ha!
Yes, gonggong wrote a lot to me when I had no idea about the world. But when I started to form my own ideas about the world, I don't think either gonggong or popo knew how to communicate with me.
Spot on! That's the reason mama is writing you a letter today and mama wants to keep writing to you even when you have a lot of different ideas about everything! You can write to me too, telling me what you think in exchange! Whaaat a fabulous idea!
But you have to use your pencil and notebook because you don't have a computer, only mama has the superpower of having a computer, ha! Where did pencil go on vacation?
That day you came back home so excited and happy, telling me about how in PE class you ran the fastest among your whole class, and how all of the classmates were cheering for you because you have been very kind, respectful, and friendly to all! Mama felt really really proud of you!
Mama wants you to keep being kind, patient, respectful, friendly, grateful, helpful, and truthful to your friends, teachers, and people you will meet, okay? It will make you happy in the end, am I right?
And, and, and don't forget to treat your own family, who? your mother, father, fua, fufa, popo, gonggong, dadi, baba and who? your sister Aditi! the equal amount of respect, patience, kindness, and gratitude, okay? Because we love you so much, much more than all of your friends combined!!
Always take care of your baby sister for mommy, okay? I know sometimes it's a little bit difficult, but remember to try and be patient with her, and guide her with love and kindness.
She loves you a lot, you know? When you are still at school, she waits for you to come back, she saves candies for you to eat, and she couldn't stop talking about "Shiva" and planning the game to play with you when you come back home.
You are such a strong boy, well, funny of course, but strong too! You are the fastest runner among all 25 classmates, boys and girls, aren't you? Because not only do you have very strong legs, oh all that muscles! you have a strong mind too!! All of your sports' teachers praise you to be focused, determined, resilient, and persistent! That's exactly the definition of a strong mind! Mama is so proud of you!
Look, because of your strong mind, you are able to practice and strengthen your body, so you can run the fastest in class. It's so rewarding, right? Mama wants you to keep doing what you are doing, keep being strong in the mind with focus, determination, resilience, and persistence. Because it's surely gonna be more fun in the future!
Oh wait, what is resilience or resilient? "Ok Google, explain 'resilience'." "The capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness." "Ok Google, explain 'persistence'." "Firm or obstinate continuance in a course of action in spite of difficulty or opposition."
So basically, "resilience" means you fall, you cry, you are hurt, but it's ok, you will get up and keep trying. And "persistence" means you keep doing what you do, nonstop, even if it's so difficult that you might think you can't do it, but you never give up, just keep trying.
I think this is a very long letter already, almost done. Mama just wants to say how much I love you, even when mama turns into a monster and starts shouting at you... ok ok, mama will try not to turn into a monster too often, okay?
Love Forever
Mama, May 10th 2022
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