Tradition from my father - Essay Example

As far as what I have heard of him, he has always been very paternalistic. I once heard a story by my mother describing my father´s character. This is as follows: A newly-married couple visited Yujoo, where my grandparents lived. The male was my father´s cousin. At the time my father had not started his business and he only had five thousand Won (roughly $5.00US) in his pocket. He gave all of his money to his cousin saying, “Keep it for your taxi fare.” Later on my parents had to borrow their own taxi fare from someone else to get home.

My family would go to the best restaurants no matter how the business was doing. I have never heard my father say, “Please tighten up your budget.” This has even been at moments when economically I have not been well. I think my mother has not heard it either. He has never talked about his business affairs at home, however, his mood changes to aggressiveness such as when “he is in trouble” according to his sister, just to alarm my mother rather than hearing it from him. Not so long ago, he told me that he never took buses or economy class flights, in a proud manner, while he was drinking with me.

I did not feel him to be arrogant when he was saying it. I thought that it was cool of him. At that moment, I wished I could make more money than he. At the same time, I thought, “I am not going to stay like this forever”. He is the kind of person that would never express his feeling or his real thoughts, at least, not in front of my younger brother or me. He would rather say, whatever one has inside, one keeps it to ones self. I call it “the educational tone!” When I was a youngster, I did not know that he was trying to teach me something.

As I grew up, I understood some of his sayings. Now, I think I do not only understand him, but I also know him, and he might even know how I approve the way he is. When my family got together during the years he would say less