.:Monday, September 05, 2005:.
I wish you enough...
I read this in one of the sister sections today...it's
cute.
At an airport I overheard a father and daughter in
their last moments together. They had announced her
planes departure and standing near the door, he said
to his daughter, "I love you, I wish you enough."
She said, "Daddy, our life together has been more than
enough. Your love is all I ever needed. I wish you
enough, too, Daddy." They hugged good-bye and she
left.
He walked over toward the window where I was standing
there. I could see he wanted and needed to cry. I
tried not to intrude on his privacy, but he welcomed
me in by asking,
"Did you ever say good-bye to someone knowing it would
be forever?" "Yes, I have," I replied. Saying that
brought back memories I had of expressing my love and
appreciation for all my Dad had done for me.
Recognizing that his days were limmited, I took the
time to tell him face to face how much he meant to me.
So I knew what this man was experiencing.
"Forgive me for asking, but why is this a forever
good-bye?"
"I am old and she lives much too far away. I have
challenges ahead and the reality is, her next trip
back will be for my funeral," he said. "When you were
saying good-bye I heard you say,
'I wish you enough,' may I ask what that means?" He
began to smile.
"That's a wish that has been handed down from other
generations. My parents used to say it to everyone."
He paused for a moment and looking up as if trying to
remember it in detail, he smiled even more. "When we
said, 'I wish you enough,' we were wanting the other
person to have a life filled with enough good things
to sustain them," he continued and then turning toward
me, he shared the following as if he were reciting it
from memory.
"I wish you enough sun to keep your attitude bright. I
wish you enough
rain to appreciate the sun more. I wish you enough
happiness to keep your spirit alive. I wish you enough
pain so that the smallest joys in life appear much
bigger. I wish you enough gain to satisfy your
wanting. I wish you enough loss to appreciate all that
you possess. I wish enough 'Hello's' to get you
through the final 'Good-bye.'"
He then began to sob and walked away.
"It takes a minute to find a special person, an hour
to appreciate them, a day to love them, but then an
entire life to forget them."
chotu-meyeh
@ 9/05/2005 01:34:00 PM
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