Lacking the common sense

Here I go again! The future is in some sense patterned by our past. How?
Well from our own experiences, here's how my story evolves.
One Christmas morning about 7am, Lystra was knocking on our galvanise gate. Mum was just about to cut that black cake for us kids. Oh! The smell of black cake reminds me of this incident. I was about 6years of age and my brother was about 2yrs of age. Just WHY did Lystra have to knock on our gate? We were upset as kids. 'Just one moment, let me see what Lystra wants,' mum instructs us. Well, fight break out between two kids on Christmas morning. I cannot remember the reasons why silly kids fight, but I got my share of buff soon after when mum returned to cut us the cake. 
The reasons were:
1) I was elder so I should set an example for my younger brother
2) Lystra wanted to buy half dozen of eggs to bake her cake 
3) We already had our cake out the oven, her last 6 eggs she kept to bake another cake for the New Year was sold 
4) Lystra didnt have time to purchase her eggs before Christmas and when we can help others in a situation, we must. 
We sulked as kids even though we got to enjoy mum's freshly baked black cake. We blamed Lystra for our fight & that she spoilt our Christmas Day & how she should have bought her eggs the day before or in a grocery somewhere else. Only in a chinese shop, one could have gone knocking & buying groceries 24 x 7. Yes, even on Christmas Day. 
Silly kids we were, we didn't speak to Lystra for a week. As we mature now, I for one remember the smell of black cake & this "sense of smell" lures me back vividly to a fight on Christmas morning with my sibling and mum's love and values. Mind you, no one else was up from bed yet as they closed shop late on Christmas Eve night. All the men were still asleep but mum was up baking for us & answering Lystra & teaching us the true meaning of Christmas ie sharing, loving, giving. 
And so we have grown up to be who we are now, servants to others, even though it's the invisible inner trait.
The "sense of sight" teaches me yet another priceless treasure. From the movies, Asian and Catholic values differ significantly from  Western culture. In US schools, teenage pregnancy by girls ain't no "taboo". This trend is being emulated in T&T perhaps? The Minister Of Education Dr Tim Gopeesingh stated 'teenage girl pregnancy rate was rising'  in the news. The more liberalized American girl would work and study to pay for her tertiary education in a restaurant, or the parents will take a loan. Upon graduation, the kid will repay the loan. Aren't kids in the Caribbean happier because sterling leadership paved that road for us? The leadership from Caribbean governments to parental sacrifices throughout the generations is perhaps a lesson for American family culture to yearn to learn. Gradually though, the creeping dictatorial influences of American culture idolizes & implants it's values on our Afro-Trinidadian girls who see Nicki Minaj, Beyonce & Lady Gaga as personal mantras. Still, it's difficult to penetrate an ethnic population whose cultural roots are deeply entrenched by the presence of religion through the extended family. Thank God then for the sense of sight or foresight?!