My Dad Was Right

I just didn’t know it then.
Every evening, he came home carrying the tiredness of the day.

Before I could speak, before I could escape into play... he asked the same quiet question

“Did you study?”

Sometimes he’d sit for a moment and say things that felt ordinary, almost annoying:

“ጌዜህን ባግባቡ ተጠቀም”
“መፅሀፍትን አንብብ“
“ጓደኛ ምርጥ”

As a child, I took it personally.
I thought he didn’t see me.
Didn’t understand what I liked.

Didn’t care about my world.
In my mind, he wasn’t guiding me

he was controlling me.
A dictator, I thought.

Then I said "ምን አለበት አሁን ብጫወት በስምእም"

He was always looking at who I could become, not who I was at that moment.


Years passed.

Life began to ask its own hard questions.

Time slipped away faster than I expected.

Mistakes became teachers.

Loss became loud.

And slowly, painfully, his voice started to make sense.


Those simple words weren’t restrictions.

They were protection.
They weren’t pressure.
They were preparation.

I wish I had listened sooner.
Not because life would have been easy
but because it wouldn’t have been so hard.


Now I think about the things he said back then.

So simple.
So easy to ignore.
So expensive to learn later.


One day, I might come home tired too.
And a child might look at me the way I once looked at him.

And I wonder
will they understand me then?
Or will they understand me only years later,

when they whisper to themselves:
“My dad was right.”


"ሰነፍ የአባቱን ተግሣጽ ይንቃል፤ ዘለፋን የሚቀበል ግን አእምሮው የበዛ ነው።"
-ምሳሌ 15:5


@OnyxDesignx

'organized chaos' just becomes 'chaos lmaooooo

Me after solving 'Two Sums' for the 100th time just to keep my leetcode streak up

Niggas telling themselves they got potential energy like we still in physics class lol, then do something about it

( i am niggas)

I'm better at modeling than looking at raw data besmab

I basically just plot everything and pray😭

23 hours no sleep and i’ve unlocked the secret level where everything is funny lmaooo