Thank You For Telling Me That

It wasn’t totally true, however I understood why a child would possibly say that. “I put on totally different shirts.”

“No, you at all times put on your purple shirt.”

Once more, not totally true, however I did normally put on one thing from my intensive Woodland Park brand t-shirt assortment, and amongst them have been three purple ones. “I do put on lots of purple shirts.”

“And also you at all times put on the identical denims.”

This was largely true. I’ve a number of  pairs of threadbare denims I consider as my “work pants.” 

“And also you at all times put on the identical sneakers.”

By now, I used to be beginning to really feel slightly defensive. There are a number of pairs of sneakers I put on to highschool, however I needed to admit that I might gone with the identical previous (largely) waterproof boots throughout the lengthy, moist winter. “I do not at all times put on the identical sneakers. I simply largely put on the identical sneakers.”

“You do not even change your coiffure.”

“It will get longer and shorter, however sure, you are proper about that.”

Up so far he had taken the posture of an earnest prosecutor, laying out the naked information as if from notes. I appreciated his actually and was flattered that he had apparently given my look a great deal of thought, at the same time as I wasn’t precisely thrilled with the portrait he was portray of me. However now he smiled as he got here to the conclusion towards which he had been working, “You by no means change.”

In a flash I acknowledged that whereas I do change, whereas I do proceed to develop, on this boy’s eyes I’m a person upon whom one can rely day after day, a person that he noticed as strong, predictable, secure, and secure, like my father had been for me. That is not the form of man I’ve at all times been. I preferred what I noticed on this surprising reflection of myself. I stated, “Thanks for telling me that.”

“You are welcome.”