It was obvious, that his dad is concerned for him.
– I have a feeling, that my head will never stop spinning.
– Do you feel bad?
The father stopped the car.
– Dad, let’s go. I want to start walking.
– You should go to sleep now, and start walking tomorrow. Where are you rushing all the time? You can’t outrun the time. I have told you many times that you need to do things at the right time, without rushing..
– Thank you. I understood, don’t worry. If I need to go to sleep, I will.
– Good. Don’t upset mom, ok?
– You know that she becomes upset out of no reason. There is nothing I can do. I don’t know.
– She complains that you don’t listen to her.
– But how, dad? I always do what she wants me to. How can I do what I am asked to if I am not listening?
– I don’t even know what to think: you give me completely different information from her. Whom am I supposed to believe?
– You are supposed to believe yourself and Holy Father. You should believe yourself, because you know how to do things right. You should believe the Holy Father because he helps you in your deeds.
– So I should not believe people at all?
– How can you believe people if they say one thing, do another, dream of something else, and then blame everyone that things are not working out for them!! They blame everyone but themselves. How can you believe them?
– That’s’ right. How do you know all this, Max?
– Everyone knows that, it is just that people don’t want to admit their mistakes.
– Every person has a right to do a mistake. Am I right? What do you think?
– There is no right! Who have us this right? Look: a person is taking an action even thought he knows that it is not a correct thing to do. So, he does a wrong thing and then gets scared, that other people will notice. When he is pointed to that, he will just say: “Everyone has a right to do a mistake!” Am I right, dad?
– Yes, son. I agree with you completely! Please tell me, how do you see and understand events? Even I can’t explain them like you: simply and straightforwardly. It sounds very wise, so I don’t even know what to think now.
– Don’t think of it too much. You just need to be opened and to talk of things as they really are, not as you want to see them. See, you were thinking in a wrong way too and were looking for the right answer somewhere. You need to look for an answer within yourself.
– How? I don’t seem to understand you very well. Please be more specific.
– See, we’ll go home now. I will be staying home, or sleeping, or reading, or listening to music, or watching TV – it does not really matter what I’ll be doing. Mom will be home too, right? She’ll want to talk to me, but I’ll always be busy in my room with the door closed. This is what actually irritates her: the person is close to her from one hand, but very far away from the other. You know, I always need to be active and I can’t stand meaningless conversations. Mom wants to communicate and I don’t. It frustrates her. This is when she loses control…
– How can it happen like this?
– It happens like this, dad. The next thing she will do, she will open the doors to my room and tell me not to close them. At the same time, she’ll turn on the TV volume very loud. I’ll tell her that I want to sleep and it is hard to do even with the closed door. She knows it very well, but she’ll still say: «Don’t even thing of closing doors». However, I’ll close them anyway. So, when you get home she tells you that I am not listening.
