Chapter 4
After he met with his friend Robert came home and thought could how could he forget the past and stop fearing the future. Suddenly he came to a realization that the only way to escape from the past is to be content with it. So, he had made a plan to do so after dinner tonight.
The dinner was awfully quiet today which made it awkward. After dinner, he invited his both sons over to his study. They arrived and sat down in front of him. Robert started,
"Listen, kids, don't interrupt me, just listen to me and then you can decide what to do. I am sorry. I am sorry that I was never an actual husband, friend, or father let alone a grandfather. My life was hell the moment I was born, to me I was the enemy of myself. I never loved myself. In fact, I hated myself to the core that made me unable to love anything. Due to my parents, I had no belief in love between two people, I never received fatherly love nor the motherly love that everyone receives and the only way I could excel was because I was invested in work, success and money only. I married Annie, had three kids but the love I was supposed to give to you all was never there. I have been noticing how the cycle keeps repeating, me, you, your kids, the hollowness is there. This made me try to change this cycle and for that, I needed to change myself. I know I am old but I think I can change even now. I am trying my utter best to change. Give you the love that you all deserve. And to do that I think I need to ask is forgiveness from you, my precious kids."
By the time he was finished all of them had tears in their eyes.
"Dad, this is the first time you apologized and came out like this", the youngest replied and then hugged his dad crying.
"I can forgive you dad, but it will take some time to open these knots dad. How about this dad? We can try opening them together..." The older said while wiping his tears and glasses.
All night afterwards they sat down exchanging worries, love, happiness and sadness.
The next day Elijah was over the moon for his father was driving him to his school and his uncle made him breakfast that was surprisingly very delicious, he dared to say that it was the best breakfast he ever had and his grandpa helped him get ready for school.
The next weeks were very different in Frost household. It was no more a cold house but rather it started having a feeling of home.
One fine evening, Robert was reading the book while his sons and grandson were playing some weird card game their grandson had wanted to play when he stumbled on the lines of another rule which made him smile while looking at the scene ahead of him;
"Hell is in the here and now. So is heaven. Quit worrying about hell or dreaming about heaven, as they are both present inside this very moment. Every time we fall in love, we ascend to heaven. Every time we hate, envy or fight someone we tumble straight into the fires of hell."
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