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Many children complain of their parents in their confessions. An eleven-year-old girl who had bitter feelings toward her mother, came to make confession. She said, “Many times I feel that my mother doesn’t treat me like a mother. For example, whenever I want to wear a certain dress, inside I don’t feel like wearing it if my mother tells me to wear it. Unconsciously, I behave differently from what she expects me to do. I feel that she’s from a past generation which has thoughts that are backward in thinking.”
That reminded me of what a person usually says about his father at different ages,
4 years old, “You’re my father who can do anything.”
5 years old, “You’re my father who is very knowledgeable.”
6 years old, “Father, the sweetest dad in the world.”
8 years old, “Father, you doesn’t know everything as it should be.”
10 years old, “Father, when you were my age, things were completely different from today. Your experience doesn’t fit into our era.”
12 year’s old, “Father, you don’t remember everything. You must have forgot your childhood, you forgot that you were once a boy facing all the issues that I face.”
14 years old, “Father, you’re from a backward thinking era.”
21 years old, “Who is my father? Oh my God, I don’t see anything good in my father.”
25 years old, “My father knows very little.”
30 years old, “I need to consult with my father because I benefit from his experience and how he dealt with the issues that I’m facing. He’s so wise and he carries a whole world of experience.”
50 years old, “I don’t deserve to be the son to my wise father. I’m sad because I didn’t appreciate the fact that my father was intelligent. I could have benefited more from him.”
→ English translation of the story here at St-Takla.org: ما يقوله الإنسان عن أبيه.
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