This picture is perfect.
Real photographers could criticize it enough, I am sure. But it is perfect, look:
This is a picture of my dad’s ultimate dream life. That’s him sitting on that chair. In the water, you can see my mom and her grandkids.
This is all my dad wants from life, he told me. He said, he just wants to sit at the beach and watch the kids grow.
What a great dream to have. So impressively achievable.
So, after we visited him in January, I decided to never let go of my dad again. Wherever the children go, he’d go. Watch them grow.
That was in January, though. We all know what happened next.
I feel like I am living in a Will Smith movie. It’s weird even writing the words “but then, the virus came”. Now, he is alone at the beach… and the 4 of us are here, quite desperate.
This pandemic made so many decisions feel urgent. Made us miss so many simple things.
As soon as we can, we are going to do all the things that we couldn’t do for so many months.
As soon as I can, I’m gonna sit at the beach with my dad.
Watch the kids grow. Never let go.
