A touching letter ....

[oio147852369]

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

[soya720407]

真感動...

[piper]

OH~~~~~~
i almost to cry
i miss my mom

[Wayne]

麥帥為子祈禱文
General MacArthur's Prayer for His Son -- Douglas MacArthur

Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak; and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid; one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat and humble and gentle in victory.
Build me a son whose wishes will not take the place of deeds; a son who will know Thee -- and that to know himself is the foundation stone of knowledge.
Lead him, I pray, not in the path of ease and comfort, but under the stress and spur of difficulties and challenge. Here let him learn to stand up in the storm; here let him learn compassion for those who fail.
Build me a son whose heart will be clear, whose goal will be high, a son who will master himself before he seeks to master other men, one who will reach into the future, yet never forget the past.
And after all these things are his, add, I pray, enough of a sense of humor, so that he may always be serious, yet never take himself too seriously. Give him humility, so that he may always remember the simplicity of true greatness, the open mind of true wisdom, and the meekness of true strength.
Then I, his father, will dare to whisper, "I have not lived in vain!"

麥帥為子祈禱文

作者：麥克阿瑟
譯者：吳奚真

主啊，請陶冶我的兒子，使他成為一個堅強的人，能夠知道自己什麼時候是軟弱的；使他成為一個勇敢的人，能夠在畏懼的時候認清自己，謀求補救；使他在誠實的失敗之中，能夠自豪而不屈，在獲得成功之際，能夠謙遜而溫和。

請陶冶我的兒子，使他不要以願望代替實際作為；使他能夠認識主---並且曉得自知乃是知識的基石。

我祈求你，不要引導他走上安逸舒適的道路，而要讓他遭受困難與挑戰的磨鍊和策勵。讓他藉此學習在風暴之中挺立起來，讓他藉此學習對失敗的人加以同情。

請陶冶我的兒子，使他的心地純潔，目標高超;在企圖駕馭他人之前，先能駕馭自己；對未來善加籌畫，但是永不忘記過去。

在他把以上諸點都已做到之後，還請賜給他充分的幽默感，使他可以永遠保持嚴肅的態度，但絕不自視非凡，過於拘執。請賜給他謙遜，使他可以永遠記住真實偉大的樸實無華，真實智慧的虛懷若谷，和真實力量的溫和蘊藉。

然後，作為他的父親的我，才敢低聲說道：「我已不虛此生！」