Our family got a severe accident on the way home
from a trip.
I cannot walk without my artificial legs.
My father also cannot without it but he is less than me.
I was dying to suffer from a sense of inferiority when I
reached puberty.
My father consoled me whenever I cried getting down a desk.
Because he had the same sorrow, he understood my sorrow particularly.
I entered a college after a severe adolescence due to my father¡¯s
hospitable love.
On a welcoming ceremony day,
My father told that he was proud of me with tearful eyes.
When we go out of a college after ceremony,
I witnessed the surprising scene I cannot believe.
A little kid made a sudden rush into the roadway.
Then, my father ran into the roadway to save the kid without
artificial legs.
I watched father walking out of road taking a kid.
¡°Father?¡¦¡±
I cried out in surprise, but father rushed to walk holding
artificial legs as if he didn¡¯t hear me.
¡°Mother? Did you also watch that he walked?¡±
But mother talked in a quiet tone.
¡°Don¡¯t be surprised, listen to me. I supposed you would know
this truth someday.
Father doesn¡¯t have to have an artificial legs, he hurt only
arm at that time.
But he has used artificial legs for 4 years.
He believed that he could comfort you only with sharing the
same sorrow.
¡°Why? Why father did?¡±
I burst into tears unconsciously.
¡°Don¡¯t cry, he was proud of himself to afford to give a console
you¡¦
He may concern that the kid would get an accident like you¡¦¡±
I shed a tear on my pink coat watching father going before.
When I feel sorrow, I cried cuddling up to father¡¯s bosom.
When I cried with a noise, my father shed a tear in his heart
quietly.
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