Thank you and sorry my love!

Dear my baby!

Now, perhaps you are busy pursuing your dreams in new horizons.

I hope you will soon achieve your dreams, because since you were born, I have wanted nothing more than to see you grow up and live happily in this world. Therefore, what you wish for is also what I wish for, my joys and sorrows are also linked to your joys and sorrows.

I can hear the footsteps of time catching up behind me, soon you will have to complain about my lack of clarity. Maybe I will call you when you are busy with an important meeting, just to ask if you have had breakfast, because I know you like to sleep in and will rush to the office without having time to eat. Or when you are having fun with your friends, I will call you like an annoying old lady to remind you to come home early to rest and prepare for a stressful work week.

Maybe I will also send you a scarf, a clumsy old-fashioned woolen hat that I clumsily knitted when I saw the TV saying the weather was getting cold, while you are always dressed up in beautiful, fashionable clothes. The most annoying thing is that sometimes I will call, hesitantly asking when you will come back to visit me, forgetting that yesterday I said I was going on a business trip and could not come home yet... Please don't be angry with me for all those annoying things, when old age approaches, it is also the time when I cannot take care of you like when you were a child. I only know how to care for you with vague worries, can you understand and sympathize with me?

My child today has grown up, can walk on his own two feet without needing his mother to hold his hand step by step like in those distant days. He knows how to calculate the pros and cons, knows how to put himself at the center of the world, knows how to cut down time and attention on old familiar things to buy and sell new benefits. When you are tired of the unintentional (even meaningless) transactions, please do not forget that there is still someone who always follows every step you take, giving you the best things in life without expecting anything in return.

If you ever feel sad and cry, please let me shed tears of pain for you in exchange for a peaceful soul and a smile on your lips. And if tomorrow you stumble on the path of life and your young heart seems to be broken, my hands will still hold and protect you, pick up each broken piece of you and mend it, cherish it with love and forgiveness. Only then will you realize that the most precious feeling in the world is something that is not needed and cannot be bought with money. I hope that after learning new things out there, you will understand this simple thing, while you still have me by your side.

I don't know how many days I have left, but it will never be enough for me to be with you, watching over you and waiting for you. Just fly high and far, because even though my eyes are covered by the years, I will still see you, looking towards you with all my love, faith and steadfast loyalty. If you feel indebted to me, live well and happily, because that is already too much for me!

my mother

Hai Trieu (Mail from Paris)