Sweet & Candy

Stan, you gonna pay attention to following things we are talking about here!!!

After dinner, a bottle of wine starts chichating. Yes, we talk about sweet, candy, cookie. Well, I couldn't say a word coz I rarely try any of them. My Da is super strict on unnecessary supply, especially those which include sugar, artificial colour or flavour. Even my granny ran a grocery shop and she made her own sweets to sell in the shop, but I couldn't have any of them. Due to Da's health concern, I grew up without ice cream. Granny used to give me a small cube ice cream if I had behaved extra well, but it was like once a year. Back to the point, the thing is, I have nothing to say in this kind of topic coz I have no experience of any of them, oh, not even watch TV. In TW, we started study very hard in very young age. National exam was such big issue to us, therefore, we had to prepare earlier. But it turn out we had no childhood. I didn't have toy (Da believed books better than toy), I didn't watch TV (no clue of cartoon or ads), I didn't have friend to play with(lived far away from school), I didn't try any of sweet, I didn't have ice cream.... All my childhood was in studying, reading more, memorizing more, did better in exams. Well, at age 10, I did have my own study group who competed with each other big time. And it continued until the national exam finished.

Life might be easy to grow up without sweets, candy or cookies, but I miss a part of experience I could have. Those things might not be healthy for me, but I could have my chance to try, to taste and then decide not to get it again. However, it's gone and it is done. A child has to learn from experience, to take the consequences, to take responsibility for his/her own decision.