A_Change_in_Time

A Change in Time A Change In Time Culture gaps are inevitable within families, between parents and children, grandparents and children, even aunts and uncles. Every generation grows up with different values, different beliefs and a different outlook on what life should be like – that’s ‘normal’, as society and expectations on life change as time rolls by. The key to dealing with these cultural gaps is to understand and except one simple fact; Things change. In my small, but rather complicated family, the problem arises with my rather stubborn, and set-in-her-ways grandmother. Esmay, or grandma, as she is better known, grew up in England, already she was bound to be ‘a proper lady’. She comes from a wealthy family, whose value in women was about that of the servants they owned. Esmay was taught to worship her man, and that a woman’s place was in the house, doing kitchen duties and laundry, and having everything perfect for when the man of the house returns home from a horrendously troubling day at the office. Along came my mother… Esmay never liked my mother, she called her a ‘wicked’ child, and told her that no man would ever want her. mother, one, man, ever, esmay, eyes, rather, never, little, life, fact, doing, different, devil, children, change, came, am, years, told, time, things, thing, taught, something, simple, rely, realize, pretty, once, mum, much, let, late, independent, house, hard, grew, grandma’s, grandma, good, gaps, game, family, everything, esmay’s, day