Dear son...
*The day that you see me old and I am already not, have patience and try to understand me …
*If I get dirty when eating… if I can not dress… have patience. Remember the hours I spent teaching it to you.
*If, when I speak to you, I repeat the same things thousand and one times… do not interrupt me… listen to me.
*When you were small, I had to read to you thousand and one times the same story until you get to sleep…
*When I do not want to have a shower, neither shame me nor scold me…
*Remember when I had to chase you with thousand excuses I invented, in order that you wanted to bath…
*When you see my ignorance on new technologies… give me the necessary time and not look at me with your mocking smile…
*I taught you how to do so many things… to eat good, to dress well… to confront life…
*When at some moment I lose the memory or the thread of our conversation… let me have the necessary time to remember… and if I cannot do it, do not become nervous… as the most important thing is not my conversation but surely to be with you and to have you listening to me…
*If ever I do not want to eat, do not force me. I know well when I need to and when not.
*When my tired legs do not allow me walk...
… give me your hand… the same way I did when you gave your first steps.
*And when someday I say to you that I do not want to live any more… that I want to die… do not get angry… some day you will understand…
* Try to understand that my age is not lived but survived.
*Some day you will discover that, despite my mistakes, I always wanted the best thing for you and that I tried to prepare the way for you..
*You must not feel sad, angry or impotent for seeing me near you. You must be next to me, try to understand me and to help me as I did it when you started living.
*Help me to walk… help me to end my way with love and patience. I will pay you by a smile and by the immense love I have had always for you.
I love you son…
Your father
الأربعاء فبراير 21, 2024 7:03 pm من طرف شيماء أسامة 272
موضوع: a father's letter to his son 
