What would you like to have? ” I recently asked my son. “I already have everything.” His answer was looking forward to me, but it didn’t surprise me: if I was him I could not have imagined anything. What raises the question whether we spoil him. I don’t think so, but yes, everything is relative. Compared to the youth of his parents, my son lives in a heavenly paradise. But in comparison with his classmates who tour Asia during the May holiday – while he plays football with his friends on a field near his school, it is all not too bad with the luxury.
“And what would you like for Father’s Day?” Look, it’s an empathetic boy, who thinks of Father’s Day while I have not thought about it for a moment. That question evokes memories. What did I actually give my own father – his ‘grandfather Jan’ – in the past? A book? Cigars? A new pipe? A set of diskettes in front of his computer, which he got up after his retirement? I don’t know anymore, it has been that long. What I would like to have?
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“I already have everything,” I say. “So I leave it to your imagination.” That will probably be a drawing again, I think, looking at a set of earlier Father’s Day drawings on the wall. “Come, play football,” says my son, the Father’s Day discussion is bored to him. We go outside: fit, shoot, finish, pass.
His skills are getting better, I notice. After an hour we go back inside. “Cozy, right?” He says sweaty and tired and he crashes on the couch. Once I played football with my father, I think in the garden. I still remember those moments very well because that’s what it’s all about. Not because of those gifts for Father’s Day.
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