for one more day

Many things I do not know about my parents, about their love to each other and the reasons why they did all the things they did to me. Why they taught me what I’ve learned from them, and how did they know that I loved them all the time in their lives even though I was too proud to show or tell them so.

 

And in ‘for one more day’, Chick Benetto was so lucky for he had the chance to get the explanation from his mom. The explanation why he raised that way, without a father at the time when he needed him the most, as teenager, at the baseball field. He hated her for her status as ‘widow’ at that time (somewhere around 1950s). He was so ashamed of her for she was a nice-looking widow that made every wives in town so jealous of her.

Benetto was too focus on her status and reputation that he didn’t have any idea how she survived as single parent of two kids, even chick could go to college (and he blew up as student and preferred to chase his dream in baseball… which had never happened).

And ‘for one more day’ he had with his mom, he’s found out, through her best friends, that she was so brave, so strong, and so dauntless. She was always a great mother who played both roles as mom and dad, who kept standing for him, meanwhile in so many moments he didn’t stand up for her.

 

The book has inspired me to have another days with my belated parents. How the stood up for me, and my flaws for didn’t stand for them. I want to have the days when I explore my history, which is their story. For me, their stories are treasures, knowledge that precious to my future. As mitch said: behind all your stories is always your mother’s story, because hers is where yours begins.

And then maybe I’ll tell you here later about her story, because according to mitch again, “sharing tales of those we’ve lost is how we keep from really losing them.”

 

My Friends,

I do not try to sell book here

Nor I persuade you to read it.

But I do encourage you to find the treasure of your lost-love ones…

Because when someone you love left you or left you, they are not truly gone. Sometimes they are come back to your heart, even at unlikely time. I also learned that from mitch.

Thanks mitch!!

~ by nisa felicia faridz on November 24, 2007.