<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=459980" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>An ardent wish for others</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">How ardently, now, I wish for others<br>what I –alas too late – wish -<br>would have wished - for my own self, <br>and maybe, for my parents too: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">some time in life – it would depend on you –<br>but not too late, too late –</div><div style="margin:10px 0">to sit down together - <br>each parent, each child, individually –<br>and maybe with a few days ‘thinking time’ beforehand -<br>and say – you could take this in turns –</div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘Ask me all the questions<br>which you never, until now, thought to ask...<br>ask me all the questions<br>which you never liked or dared to ask...<br>and I shall answer you…’</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and if it goes well (as I pray it will) <br>you might even incorporate this<br>into a yearly family occasion: <br>done with humour and with love; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">this is what I wish for you<br>as ardently as I would have<br>wished it for myself; <br>for this is my regret, <br>for myself; and perhaps, for them..</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=459980" data-title="An ardent wish for others de Michael Shepherd" data-description="How ardently, now, I wish for others what I –alas too late – wish - would have wished - for my own self, and maybe, for my parents too: some time in life – it would depend on you – but not too late, too late – to sit down together - ..."></div> </div> </div>

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