Back When I Was a Kid

These, are the essays that won!!!  Translated…

“I’d Never Forget/One Day/as I Was Stepping Out of the Hospital Ward/My Father Called Out to Me/Fell Silent for a Short While Told Me/You……Need to Work Hard…”

This, was the dialogue in a song by Feng Ching, about his interaction with his father, and, I’d felt emotional each and every time I’d heard it.

Back when I was growing up, I was really close to my dad, felt that he’d loved me so, and would buy me the yummy treats, took us to amazing places.  But, as I got older, my dad worked too much, always had a straight face, and became authoritarian toward me, and naturally, I’d, drifted away from him too.

In middle school, after I’d learned that my father was diagnosed with cancer, I’d gotten trapped by the depth of fear of losing my dad, and the chances of how I may not get to continue my education, my dad told me, “Don’t worry, although we’re not rich, I will make sure, that you will get through college.”  I still remembered the look in my dad’s eyes as he’d told me this, as well as the heat, from the beginning of the summer season.  And, because of his words, I’d set up my mind, to weather through the difficulties of life with my family.

And just like so, my father fought hard, with his cancer, became a teacher in life for us.  But, he’d still passed on, in my sophomore year in college.

“When I’d thought back closely/the most precious picture in my mind/you, riding with my behind your back, telling me/to hold on tightly to me/I feel so safe and secure, and just, soared behind you…”

Recently, when I’d met a bump in the road in work, I’d recalled how it was, what my father had given to us, that I’d come this far, and so, no matter what the hardships that fall before me, I’d must, work hard through it all; because I wanted to have, that same strength, as my father once did.

And so, this, is the legacy that a father left for his child, and, this woman had acquired the strongest values, on how to conquer all the difficulties in her life, by watching her father battling cancer, and although her father ended up, losing HIS fight, but, the daughter still carried his ways.  There’s NO better ways, to pass any kind of legacy down, and this “inheritance” is still WAY, WAY, WAY better, than the monetary kind!