Two days ago, I went to the airport to pick foreign participants coming into the BroSis Project, a research camp program run by MIZY. When I was waiting for two German girls at the gate, I saw a teenage-looking girl get out and go hugging her seems-to-be sister with her cart pulled up somewhere. Her sister pointed to their grandmother who has also been waiting long to see her at the airport. As this girl who just arrived in Korea discovered her grandma, she approached and hugged her in a big, tight embrace. I was so touched by that scene of family reunion - especially because it's reunion of grandma and granddaughter, which urges me to dream of me doing a welcome hug with my late grandma. I almost burst into tears at the beautiful scene.
But when this girl's done with a brief, strong hug, she just left the spot dragging her sister standing along with them to the other side of the gate area and talked to other people, leaving her grandma left behind right there where they had a moving reunion. While curiously staring at what's happening with them, I just assumed that she's gonna be back to her grandma and take care of her cart and other baggage stuff. But she spent quite a time greeting and having a conversation with some people she knew together with her sister - she didn't seem to remember her grandma was right there waiting for her to get back to her and leave the airport. The grandma, so touched and excited to see her granddaughter again - probably after a long time of no touch - even cried and tried to wipe her tears rolling on her cheeks with the top of her hands. And she was holding a firm grip of the handle of the airport cart her granddaughter has steered. Grandma was kept alone there for a while, just staring at her two granddaughters laughing with some unknown people. They even just went away to get out of the airport talking to each other, leaving the grandma behind who was carrying the cart alone. She seemed like a porter who was taken for granted to take that job as usual - but at this moment she was still crying.
The two granddaughters' attitude got me really angry about letting her grandma follow them behind just like a maid to do their errands. But at the same time that scene made me search out if there were ever such a moment like that in which I left someone such as my father or mother behind just using him or her as my maid and only caring about other less important people. Then it finally led me into thinking that I would never let my grandma, if she were alive now, completely ignored - only if she were alive now...
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