感人亲情故事 What is that? A Sparrow! 附原文

I have watched a touching video which shows a conversation between a father and his son. It was a short Greek movie, which was made in 2007. The title of the movie is What Is That? A Sparrow! A father and his son are sitting on a bench. Suddenly a sparrow lands across them. The old father asks the son, “What is that?”, to which the son replies, “A Sparrow”, and looks back into his newspaper. After some time his father asks again , “What is that?” A little annoyed, the son replies, “I just told you, Father, it’s a sparrow.” Then, the sparrow flies to the other side and sits there. The father repeats his question, “What is that?” This time, the son replies, “A sparrow, father, a sparrow … s-p-a-r-r-o-w……” and when again the father repeats his question, the son is filled with anger and says, “Why are you doing this, Father? How many times have I told you it’s a sparrow?! Can’t you get it?” The father gets up and goes into the house to take his old diary. He comes back and asks his son to read a passage from the diary, which goes like this “Today my youngest son, who a few days ago turned three, was sitting with me at the park when a sparrow sat in front of us. My son asked me 21 times what it was and I answered all 21 times that it was a sparrow. I hugged him every single time he asked me the same question, again and again, without getting mad, feeling affection for my innocent little boy.” This is really a good video. I couldn’t help crying after watching it. Really meaningful! If only people of today could learn of the patience of this loving father. We should all be nice to our parents.