Translated…
I’d connected not on purpose, with someone from my elementary school days, back then, the naughtiest boy in class posted a picture of his family it’d made me doubtful, he had a young girl of about three years of age in his arms, I was so surprised, that he already had a granddaughter. I’d sent my greetings, half jokingly, “such a young grandpa, I’m so envious!”, but, his reply was, “Nobody doesn’t envy me, but to tell the truth, she is, my daughter!”
Other than the shock, I’d still congratulated him on having a child at his old age, but, I’d started thanking heavens inside my mind, “Thank HEAVENS I’d not been granted this sort of an accident, otherwise, how will I get through, the rest of my life.”
As I’d gone to the south on vacations, I’d taken the liberty to visit with old friends, the cute and active little girl immediately caught my attention. As the group of us got lost in conversations, recalling our younger days, the little girl played coy with her dad, wanted him to hold her, so she could sit in his laps, and, she’d asked to give him a shoulder massage; and at times, the man started getting impatient, but, he couldn’t, defeat the child, playing coy in her childish voice to him, and, became gentle once more.
My classmate said, that as he was younger, he’d stressed himself about making the pay, he’d held NO recollection of his own son’s childhood whatsoever, as he’d gotten home from work, he was already spent, and didn’t have the patience, to play with his own son, and now, his son would complain on how his younger sister had all his love, that he’d wanted to trade places with her.
not my photo…
At which time, the little girl came over, pulled on his hand, to play coy with him, and whispered into my former classmate’s ears. He’d patted her head, smiled and told us, that he’s retired now, with a lot of time on his hand, not only does he chauffeur his daughter to and from school, he’d attended all of her outside-of-school activities as well, and, as he stood in for the group photos, he was mistaken as the man who run the kindergarten, and, sometimes, his daughter’s classmates mistook him for his own daughter’s grandfather, but, he’d enjoyed his current state of bliss, he’d let a lot of things go, and, just focused on what’s right before him.
The photos of his daughter swimming with her class came from the IMS, actually, the happiest sort of childhood comes from having adult company all the way, which this pair of father and daughter had in completeness.
So, this, is the belief of a man, he’d worked hard, and now, he’d, returned back to the family, because he’d not wanted to miss a minute of his own young daughter’s childhood, he’d shifted his focus from work to spending more time with his own child, and that, is a good daddy to his own baby girl.