Feels that I'm thrown back in time as I watch myself wear the old school sweater that no longer fit me but looked absolutely brand new even though I knew just how many times mumma had repaired it. It reminds me of just how much my parents used to take care of things, even when we stored things away for the summer, mumma would teach me how to pack each cloth with a newspaper inside. 

We always knew where something went, we always knew where to look. When they would tend to renovate the garden, they were never the people who wouldn't be willing to get down and dirty, to completely upturn a potted plant because it's leaves were growing yellow. But you can't really replace a human right? You have to find the actual problem and then create a better solution to solve it.

Papa would always mend broken things, he would repair, he would buy new parts but keep the structure, only replace the irreparable, kind of like when you transplant a heart that has stopped working and put in a new one so that the body continues on. Mumma was the same. And that is how I've seen things around them last. Things don't just last, they grow with time and become more strong and beautiful than they were when they began. It's like they have magic in their hands, and it baffles me the amount of experience they store, the number of books they read, the sheer amount of things they have tried on in their life and learnt from, and there is just so much I still don't know.

Papa tell me stories about how in his time things were made to last, and it makes me think of what him and mom have, a bond that would last even when they have fight every now and then, they still would work together to make it better, to make it strong and it just feels like that is something I want. To take care to mend things, not just replace if it were broken, but actually get down in the dirt and look at the roots when there seems to be something amiss. To try and find the hole that is leaking and to plug it.

To take care of what I have, to make something grow, to patiently wait even if you see nothing wrong going around.