*Friday, 24th October 2008*
Picked this from someone's journal.
An 80 year old man was sitting on the sofa in his house along with his 45 years old highly educated son. Suddenly a crow perched on their window.
The Father asked his Son, ’What is this?’
The Son replied ’It is a crow’.
After a few minutes, the Father asked his Son the 2nd time, ’What is this?’
The Son said ’Father, I have just now told you ’It’s a crow’.
After a little while, the old Father again asked his Son the 3rd time, What is this?’
At this time some ex-pression of irritation was felt in the Son’s tone when he said to his Father with a rebuff. ’It’s a crow, a crow’.
A little after, the Father again asked his Son t he 4th time, ’What is this?’
This time the Son shouted at his Father, ’Why do you keep asking me the same question again and again, although I have told you so many times ’IT IS A CROW’. Are you not able to understand this?’
A little later the Father went to his room and came back with an old tattered diary, which he had maintained since his Son was born.
On opening a page, he asked his Son to read that page. When the son read it, the following words were written in the diary :-
’Today little son aged three was sitting with me on the sofa, when a crow was sitting on the window. Son asked me 23 times what it was, and I replied to him all 23 times that it was a Crow. I hugged him lovingly each time he asked me the same question again and again for 23 times. I did not at all feel irritated and I rather felt affection for innocent child’.
While the little child asked him 23 times ’What is this’, the Father had felt no irritation in replying to the same question all 23 times and when today the Father asked his Son the same question just 4 times, the Son felt irritated and annoyed.
It's A Crow
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Ungrateful human beings.
Well we do tend to be a lil impatient with the octogenarians unfortunately.
The love is different.
I've seen this used in a Malay movie before - the father with Alzheimer's disease and the young son (now in his 30s). Exact same thing, father kept asking, the son kept repeating - except the part about reading the diary, that was done with a flashback - where the mother was saying that the father's love for the son was so strong that he didn't mind telling his son over and over what it was.
Think it wasn't a crow though, more like a tree of some sort - because the tree was a plot device: the son used to play in the tree a lot, so he asked the father what tree it was. Some years later, the father - can't remember the name of the tree, so he ask his son, over and over because he keeps forgetting.
but i see parents nowadays also impatient with their child lor~ sometimes they don't even bother. Maybe human now in general are more impatient?? regardless of what status?
Really ah? I mean, really the father hugged the kid lovingly during the 23 times he ask that (assuming it really occurred)?
i knowssss... i am soooo patient with my nephews and nieces... but when my grandma ask me something now i am like... urggghsssssss... bising~ teruks sial.
.... we must love our parent n respect the elderly..
hi chris, long time no see, not flying around meh? ;p
That said, always be patient, no matter what.
Hi EARLGREYTEA... hmm... may i know who r u ar? Cos i dun c ur pic wo..
Having my off days now. Hehe...
Happy Halloween -->
Happy Weekends XD
chris,
u are the fren of the other member of team ottamon. ;p
didnt call jimmy meh/?
Hi all,
Actually, you can say that I'm kinda like the son mentioned above.
Dazedblu,
Happy Halloween!
EGT,
Hey, does Chris know who is ottamon? :p
I suppose it's bcoz deep-down, we simply can't accept the fact that these ppl that we idolized have deteriorated so much as years piled up, hence our frustration. Practising patience is tough but necessary towards our elders, i suppose.
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