June 6, 2019

Red Star Flowers in the Secondary Jungle

Recently I took some photos of creepers with red flowers and I started to remember my child hood days, playing make belief skits.

We used to see lots of these these tiny red trumpet like flowers  with five points growing around our kampong and village during our younger days.

We girls would pull them up and wear them on our heads pretending to be brides and bridesmaids. We must have been like 6 years old. They have small size leaves, similar to fish bones. Very gentle on our hands and heads!! So we were able to create hair bands for our heads. We looked so pretty. Like fairies.

I was able to learn its scientific names later by looking at books in the library. It is called Ipomoea quamoclit (Cyrpress Vine)


How strange for us, TODAY, as we have grown old to be grandmothers and we thought that we were wrong to be embarrassed and we should not have allowed relatives to feed us with wrong information. Young men and young women should have healthy communication and have face to face encounters.

So many of my friends had secret rendevous with some unknown men and and so many of them ended up having bad relationships or they got married and then divorced.

Those having better open relationships and those having relationships with men approved by their families, studied well, went further afield. They either had good families or remained single.

Did playing childhood games prepare us for better relationships in our adult lives?

Tell me.


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