May peace be upon you.
Late one night, a man came home from a long tiring night working. When he arrived home the only thing on his mind was to rest and go to sleep before he started work all over again tomorrow morrning.
But to his dismay, he found his young son not asleep yet. He scolded his son and told him to go to bed.
Instead the boy asked him,
"How much do you make per hour, dad ?"
The question made the man angry.
"What? Non of your business, son."
"Oh! Come on dad, please tell me...how much do your boss pay you for one hour?"
Tired and thinking that his son will get off his back if he answered the question,
"$100 an hour. Are you satisfied!?"
"May I borrow $50. I pay you back when I have the money."
The man was furious.
"You have the nerve to ask me for money! Do you know how hard I have to work everyday to earn that money? And you're going to use that money on some useless things. You go to bed right now, young man!" Ordered the man angrily.
The young boy marched to his bedroom gloomily.
After some time, after his anger subsided, the man started to think, and said to himself,
"What on earth does a small kid like him want that kind of money? There must be something more to this.."
So he decided to go and ask his son,
"Son, are you still awake?"
"Yeah..dad."
"I'm sorry I scolded you just now. Here's the $50. What do you want to do with the money?"
Gratefully the boy accepted the money and almost at the same time he took a few crumpled dollars under his pillow.
When his father saw this, he started to get angry again because he thought he was right that the boy just wanted to buy some useless expensive toy but before he can say anything, the boy said,
"All this money is for you, dad." He handed all the money to his father.
"Why? What for?" said his father bewildered.
"I would like to pay for one hour's of your time, dad so you could spend that time with me. I really miss you dad..."
The man hugged his young son with tears welled up in his eyes and just realized he was too busy with his work that he forgot the most precious thing in his life.....
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