CARING ~ LETTER 💥

LETTER TO HIS GRANDCHILDREN
We tried so hard to improve things for our kids that we made them worse.💥 For my grandchildren, I’d like better.💥
I’d like them to know about hand-me-hand-me-downs and homemade ice cream and leftover meat loaf sandwiches. 💥 I really would. 💥
I hope you learn humility by being humiliated and honesty by being cheated. 💥
I hope you learn to make your bed and mow the lawn and wash the car.💥
And I hope nobody gives you a brand-new vehicle when you are sixteen.💥
It will be good if at least one time you can see puppies born and your old dog put to sleep.💥
I hope you get a black eye fighting for something you believe in.💥
I hope you have to share a bedroom with your younger brother -sister. 💥And it’s all right if you have to draw a line down the middle of the room, but when he wants to crawl under the covers with you because he’s scared, I hope you let him.💥
When you want to see a movie and your little brother-sister wants to tag along, I hope you’ll let them. 💥
I hope you have to walk uphill to school with your friends and live in a town where you can do it safely.💥
On rainy days when you have to catch a ride, I hope you don’t ask your driver to drop you two blocks away so you won’t be seen riding with someone as uncool as your Mom.💥
If you want a slingshot, I hope your Dad teaches you how to make one instead of buying one.💥
I hope you learn to dig in the dirt and read books.💥
When you know to use computers, I hope you also learn to add and subtract in your head.💥
I hope you get teased by your friends when you have your first crush on a boy or girl and when you talk back to your mother that you learn what ivory soap tastes like.💥
May you skin your knee climbing a mountain, burn your hand on a stove and stick your tongue on a frozen flagpole.💥
I don’t care if you try a beer once, but I hope you don’t like it… And if a friend offers you dope or a joint, I hope you realise they are not your friend.💥
I hope you sit on a porch with your Grandma and Grandpa and go fishing with your Uncle.💥
May you feel sorrow at a funeral and joy during the holidays.💥
I hope your mother punishes you when you throw a baseball through your neighbour’s window and that she hugs you and kisses you at Christmas when you give her a plaster mould of your hand.💥
These things I wish for you – tough times and disappointment, hard work and happiness. 💥

To me, it’s the only way to appreciate life. 💥