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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 cannot 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… |
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The story goes that two friends are walking through the desert. During some point of the journey they have an argument, and one friend slap the other one in the face. The one is hurt, but without saying anything, he writes in the sand: "Today my best friend slaps me in the face." They keep on walking until they find an oasis and they decide to take a bath. The one who has been slapped gets stuck(被卡在） in the mire and starts drowning, but the friend saves him. After he recovers from the near drowning, he writes on a stone: "Today my best friend saves my life." His friend askes him, "After I hurt you, you write in the sand and now you write on a stone. Why?" He replies: "When someone hurts us we should write it down in the sand, the winds of forgiveness can erase it away. But when someone does something good for us, we must engrave it in a stone，therefore，no wind can ever erase it." Learn to write your hurts in the sand and to carve your benefits on the stone. |
