I spent the whole weekend at Erik's parents' house. The house is not very big but it is a fairly sweet home. It was an awesome weekend.
I could still recall the last night we spent in the house. We three girls had showers and went to bed early. (Erik always let us use the bathroom first) Laying in the bed, we talked about the weekend experience. Everything was planned so well and Erik was like our elder brother, always considerate and tolerant to us. He got up early and cooked us breakfast. Different breakfasts for each day. He took us to his friends' pool and had BBQ there. He guided us to UVA despite of the summer sunshine. Every time we got home, he cooked us dinner while we were watching the cartoons. We wanted to help, but found all we could do was to stand in the kitchen and gave him verbally "support"..."We have 'tortured' Erik for the whole weekend" one of us said. "Why has he never been angry with us?"the other said. Our dialogue went on like this and finally we decided to have a talk with Erik.It was over 11 o'clock at night and we four were all tired but we just wanted to talk with Erik.
I asked him why he was never annoyed by our various request,"what if we want to go somewhere and you are hungry and want to have lunch?" "Oh, it doesn't matter,we can eat tomorrow." His answer impressed me a lot. He was so considerate and always thinks for others.I began to think whether i was too self-centered in the past 20 years! It was over 1 o'clock at night when we let poor Erik go to bed.I definitely learned a lot from Erik.