"You have been missed"

I got a call from my younger brother this morning. It made me suddenly tense at that moment I picked up the phone. My brother seldom calls me if nothing happened. Usually we talk through MSN. There must be something happened if he must call me on the phone.

But he told me everything was OK. His calling just made sure I was all right, for he hadn’t seen me online for days. He said he just got a little worry about me. I felt great relief after he said so, and filled with joyful.

I was joyful because I was missed by someone (especially by families). It’s a great happiness to know about there’s someone cared about me. Everybody can understand that feeling of miss and been miss, I think.

I know the American always say ”I love you” or “I miss you” or something like that to their families. But most of Chinese don’t say such things to their families, even they do so. We just don’t speak out words like that, especially to parents. Most of Chinese parents have a power of authority to their children, not friends like. So the children have more respect than love to their parents. This condition happens in the traditional Chinese families. But in modern families, people are more opening at the relation of families. Maybe they would say love and miss and emotional things, I don’t know.

I was born at a traditional family in a traditional district. People in my hometown seldom say emotional words to their families, my families do so as well. I’ve never been told ”you’ve been missed” from my families, but I just know about it when ……when……Well,I just know about it.


----Corrected by Sajid (Thank you very much, Sajid.) 2009-03-16----


I got a call from my younger brother this morning. It made me suddenly tense at that moment I picked up the phone. My brother seldom never calls me if nothing happened. Usually we talk through MSN. Something must have happened because he is calling me on the phone.

But he told me everything was OK. He was calling just to make sure I was all right,because he hadn’t seen me online for a couple days.

He said he just got a little worried about me. I felt relieved after he said so, and filled with joyful.

I was joyful because I was missed by someone (especially by my family). It’s a great happiness to know there’s someone caring about me. Everybody can understand that feeling of missing and been missed, I think.

I know the American always say ”I love you” or “I miss you” or something like that to their families. But most of Chinese don’t say such things to their families, even they do so. We just don’t speak out words like that, especially to parents. Most of Chinese parents have a power of authority to their children, not friends like. So the children have more respect than love to their parents.

This condition happens in the traditional Chinese families. But in modern families, people are more openned to the relation of families. Maybe they would say love and miss and emotional things, I don’t know.

I was born at a traditional family in a traditional district. People in my hometown seldom say emotional words to their families, my families do so as well. I’ve never been told ”you’ve been missed” from my family, but I just know about it when ……when……Well,I just know it.