這是一位父親寫給他孩子的一封信……

“孩子…

當你看到我日漸老去,身體也漸漸不行,請耐著性子試著理解我……

如果我吃東西的時候弄的臟兮兮,如果我不會穿衣服……

有耐心一點……

你記得我曾花了多長時間教會你這些事嗎?……”

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 cannot 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…

（改編自：洋腔洋調美語網  英語點津姍姍編輯）