Secret dream

Secret dream

Published 05.02.2024 | By Йосиф

Secret dream

This story happened to one school teacher. It all happened when, upon arriving home, the teacher of Russian language and literature opened another notebook to check her homework. At some point, she clasped her head in her hands, emotions overwhelmed her entire being, she could no longer hold back her tears, she could not utter a word, the crying choked her, it was the moment when time stopped. Her husband was nearby and seemed to be abstracted from everything, he was on his phone, nothing, it would seem, could distract him from this process. But turning his head and seeing his wife in this state, he, being perplexed, did not dare to ask the question “What is happening?”

Without putting the phone away and without taking his eyes off the display, after some time, he finally asked what caused this behavior. Raising her tear-stained eyes, the wife looked at her husband and said that she was now checking her students’ homework – a small essay on the topic “My secret dream?” The husband, perplexed and noting to himself the strangeness of his wife’s behavior, without much interest or participation, nevertheless continued the conversation to find out what caused such a violent reaction. The wife replied that the last essay turned her whole world upside down. Putting the phone aside, the husband asked to tell him more, some excitement appeared on his face, and he became interested in the very essay that brought his wife to such a state and asked to read it.

The essay included the following: “My most cherished dream is to be my parents’ telephone number. My mom and dad love phones very much, it’s their favorite device, they spend so much time with it, I see them sharing everything with their phone. Communicating with me does not give them such pleasure; they may not notice me for hours. When I ask my dad to play a game with me, he says not today, because it was a hard day and he was very tired. But I see how he picks up his phone and all the fatigue goes away, he can sit like that for hours.

When my mother is busy with her own affairs, but she knows that I have been waiting for more than an hour for her to give me some time and suddenly the phone rings, she forgets about me. And he won’t interrupt the conversation even if I cry. My parents read, play games, they take care of and treasure their phones. They don’t notice all my requests to be together, because there are more important things on the phone than me. When I ask my mother to talk to me because I want to tell her something important, she always says that it’s a little later, that she’s very busy now, and that she has a phone in her hands. So I want to become a telephone so I can be close to my beloved parents.”

The wife finished reading and looked at her husband, she did not expect such a reaction, he was excited and pain was visible in his eyes, he empathized with this boy. The husband looked at his wife and said, “I wish I could hug this guy right now.” The wife raised her eyes, red from tears, and answered:

“You can do this right now – our son wrote it.”

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