Impressions on a child's mind.

Started by Treeman, Dec 04, 2024, 05:32 PM

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Treeman

2016 Fathers Day - Cody gave me this card. It was with a hand full of other pictures he had drawn and fell into the "we got hundreds like" and was binned when he was not around. Every pic drawing can not be kept. The card was a Fathers day card and I thanked him and pinned it to wall. I was busy, work - hobby dunno, thank you and put on wall. I never actually looked at it.I AM THE HAPPIEST KID THERE EVER COULD BE CAUSE THE WORLDS BEST DAD BELONGS TO ME. ------yea someone else's hand writing and likely some one else's words and Idea, but then there 's a picture drawn of me shooting a warthog and he where he stands on hunt behind me.I see hand gun and realize that this was the time the pig charged us, must have stuck in his child mind strongly. The bakkie far back on clay cliff (brown). I saw all of this today for first time and I was saddened, how much else have I missed. Why a year later do I only see it. Why did I only look now. how much has passed from his pure little heart too me and I was to fucken self occupied to notice. Tonight I feel a kunt in capital letters again, I must do better for him. I must do better for him. I must .......................
8 years old Cody and I were charged by a Warthog in the bush, I shot it with my handgun while the dog ran away and Cody climbed a tiny tree. I was chuffed that he remembered and listed when I shouted.
It must of impressed on his mind severely, this is what he drew at a school class about your Dad.
charge by David Frank Allen, on Flickr
I am who I am - I am not who you want me to be.
Therefore I am me.

Treeman

I see we both smiling in the drawing  ;)  Actuality is he was ghostly white and trying not to cry, I shat myself.
I am who I am - I am not who you want me to be.
Therefore I am me.