Special father

BPO - In the last days of May, the weather in the North is as capricious as a girl in her late teens or early twenties. The sun was crisp and then there was a sudden downpour. As soon as I got home, I heard the phone ringing. The phone screen lit up, it was my father in the countryside. My father asked about his daughter-in-law and two grandchildren, then informed me of the results of my mother's recent medical examination. The doctor scheduled her to go to the hospital for surgery in early June. Without hesitation, I told my father: "When your mother has surgery, I will go back to the hospital with her." However, before I could finish my sentence, my father brushed it off: "You don't have to go far away and work hard. I'm here to take care of your mother. In the past, your mother took care of me for years, and now that your mother has surgery, I have the chance to "repay her."

Dad's voice was firm, with a bit of humor, joking to reassure the children, but I knew that when taking care of Mom when she was sick, Dad always wanted to be the first person by her side. After being a daughter-in-law for nearly 15 years, I gradually understood that Dad was both decisive and very strong.

Dad's words brought back a story from my husband's and my mother's distant memories whenever they talked about Dad when he was young. That day, when my husband was only 9 years old and my brother-in-law was 5, my father fell ill. Dad's illness came suddenly, without warning. From a healthy person, a strong pillar of the family, Dad suddenly became a different person. Dad didn't remember Mom, his children and relatives. Dad broke things in the house and the villagers said Dad had a mental illness. Mom also said that the harsh-tongued people said Dad was crazy, that he must have done many evil things in his previous life... Mom heard all the bad things people said about Dad, but she ignored it, wholeheartedly accompanying Dad in his treatment.

So from then on, Mom followed Dad to seek treatment from one hospital to another, including the Central Hospital. Dad's illness was serious and required time. But Mom always had faith that Dad would recover. Mom persevered with Dad regardless of winter or summer, rainy or sunny days... And perhaps God did not disappoint those who tried, after nearly 4 years of treatment, Dad's illness improved and gradually went away.

The day my father was brought home from the hospital, my mother said the house seemed to come alive. My husband and my younger brother hugged my father and cried because they were sad and happy. My mother said that although my father was humorous and witty, he was also very strict. It was because of my father's strictness that many families in the village had children the same age as my husband who dropped out of school, but my father was determined not to let his two children drop out because only education could help them to suffer less. My father taught his children strength, willpower, and humility.

Although he was just a real farmer, he never refused to help any family in the village that needed help. Mom often reminded him that not everything had to be done by “taking the whole village by the nose”, but he just ignored it after listening. Even the work of moving the graves of the deceased and washing their remains was not something he refused. Dad often said that helping others was out of the heart and helping others made him happy. Every time he taught his children and grandchildren a lesson about human relations, he would calmly, gently, and slowly explain, making me feel deep in my heart that I was a lucky child to be his daughter-in-law.

Remembering, after the wedding day, nearly 3 months later, my biological father suddenly passed away. However, when he heard the news that his father-in-law in the Northwest had passed away, he immediately set off. It took nearly 10 hours of traveling long distances, and he was so tired that as soon as he arrived, he and a few young men went to the cemetery to dig a grave for my father. On the day my father was sent back to his homeland, it was pouring rain, and my father was the one who took care of all the heavy work, working hard and enthusiastically to make sure my father-in-law had a peaceful and beautiful grave.

Now my mother is sick, my father also because of his love for his children working far away from home, he decided to take care of her. That's how father is, he loves his children with all he has, just: "God gives us health so that you can work with peace of mind, wholeheartedly taking care of the children to study well is the greatest gift for us". My father never says words of love but I know deep in his heart, he always has immense love, tolerance and infinite sacrifice to give his children the best things. Thank you, dad - my special father.

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