The moments that completely change our life
I still remember that day as it happened yesterday. Three years ago, my closed friend got a long-term contract to work for a China-based corporation located in Shenzhen, China. One day before his departure, we did hold a small goodbye party and even bought him a warm coat. The weather there was quite cold. Two days after the party, I called him to ask if everything was ok for him. He told me that he must stay in Hanoi as his father got cancer. His family called him while he was crossing the borderline. Then, he had to stay in the hospital to take care his father for more than one year. My mom said to me his eyes are so deep and the deep-eyed is usually granted the sadness. Actually I do not believe in such a thing but I can see the sadness in his eyes when I visited his father. When his father passed away, I called him to comfort and share with his loss. He said to me that he started to stutter as he did spend too much time in the hospital and had not talked much with others for such a long time. His words haunted me a lot. And I still wonder how the second his family called him to announce his father’s sickness change his life. From the young who want to explore a new country full of different things, he now has to stay in Ha Noi to take care his mother – who has become a widow.
