I just had to grow up

"As we grow and mature, our perspective on life also transforms. There were so many things we did while growing up that we thought were reasonable but we no longer see them that way now that we have gained some maturity. What were some of those things for you?"

Greetings everyone. First off I would like to appreciate @ovey10 for the opportunity to share our experience concerning this week's prompt. When growing up, there were a lot of things I did and acted out back as a kid that when I think about them right now I can't help but laugh at the level I childishness I was busy displaying.

It's really amazing how our sense of reasoning can change from one point to another. One of the ways I remembered behaving back when I was much younger was refusing to eat when I was scolded by my parents. Whenever that happens, I just go to my room and isolate myself with the determination to not eat my mother's food.

"Divine, come and collect your food o!", my room would scream from across the living room to my hearing while I sat on the bed ignoring her. "Where's this girl, sef?", she would ponder and come to my room where I was. "Won't you come and collect your food and eat?", she would ask. And I will always reply her, "I am not hungry."

On very few occasions, she would beg me to go and take my food before I did. I guess I sort of loved it when she begged me, it made me feel like I had won while she had lost. But most of the times, she wouldn't even give a two fly if I was going to eat or not.

After the hunger must have hit me real bad and it was looking like I wasn't going to get that plead I was expecting from my mother, I waited till everyone had gone inside to sleep, then I'll sneak into the kitchen and take my food because my pride wouldn't allow me to walk pass them and collect the same food I was doing shakara for.

While sometimes, I may even go that day without eating at all. And it made me feel like some kind of tough person.

But as time went on and I continued to grow, it just so happened that I dropped the habit. Now, no matter how I get scolded by my Mom or Dad, it's not going to stop me from eating my food. It's kind of funny because almost everytime I get upset because of being scolded by my parents, the food my mom happens to cook at those times are very delicious. Now, why should miss out on a very delicious meal?

It was with time I began to realize that all the scolding I received from my parents were actually for my own good and act of love, and not so that I should go the rest of that day hungry. And I also realized that if at all I should get upset, it should not be on an empty stomach. Starving only makes the anger lasts longer that it is supposed to because a hungry man is an angry man, or in this case, "girl."

Right now if I refuse to eat it's either because I don't have the appetite or I am not hungry or maybe something terrible had happened. But as for not eating because someone upset me, I don't see myself doing that anymore. It doesn't make sense that the person I got offended by is busy eating while I suffer myself by not eating simply because I am angry. That means the person actually won, and I am the loser.

Let the problem I have be between me and the person involved, I don't need to bring the food into it. Thanks for reading through.

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