Patrick Tan

How does a parent feel when he is rejected by his children? After bringing them into the world, they were the source of his joy and wholeness. The fondness only a father and child can share. In this stage the father is their hero, and their protector. The father provides for his children, and see to it that every one has, no one left empty-handed. He even might have favorites, even though that he wouldn't admit. But then they reach adolescence, and children slowly drift away from him. This the father does not understand why. A relationship turned bland. No matter how he tries to bridge that former fondness it seems that the child wants none of it. Now he sits in the background alone, waiting. He wants to be angry lest he drive his children away even more. He could plead lest his pride turns on him. He is growing restless, utilizing every inch of strategy his mind can think of just to keep them by his side. He has grown weary, he wants to be a child himself so he could run to his Father and weep - bitterly. Oh what a tragedy when fathers are rejected by their children!