My Niece

Last weekend I went home to Al Ain to visit my family. My older brother who lives near my mum has three kids the youngest is the funniest of them, well in all fairness they were all funny at that age. But she does remind me a lot of me.  We were all sitting at our mum's house, and the youngest one suddenly decided that she wanted to be a boy like her father and brother. I mean it made us all laugh because that was me at her age. And it started Mum telling stories about my childhood, I mean I was crazy to be honest, not sure how they put up with me.

When my older brother and I were in school before the rest of the clan came (I think I was in first grade), we had a challenge in which whoever got the highest scores got a gift, and one time when I was victorious, I asked for boys’ stuff and games. The other time, my parents left us with our neighbors to go to the doctor, I slipped away and climbed to the top of their closet, got the keys, and cut my hair because I refused to let it grow long hahahah. Poor mum had to take me to the hairdresser and cut it shorter than my brother's cuz I messed it up so badly. One last story was, every Eid, Mum, and Dad used to get me a gold piece and when I was, I think 5 we went out to play and when we came back it was gone, in all my wisdom I decided that I was a boy, and I shouldn’t wear these gold pieces. So instead of giving it back to my parents, I decided I should throw it away.

When I look back at my childhood, I hope my niece doesn’t put her parents through too much like I did mine lols while still having fun and growing to be amazing.

The Photo: I’m the one on the left, dont have clearer ones unfortunately.