just clearing your eyes : 英語聞き流そう！

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just clearing your eyes

My father was an attentive father. He treated me so nicely throughout  my childhood. My mother didn’t like how he treated me because she  believed he was just spoiling me. Every time he did a nice thing to me,  she got angry. To avoid her anger, he had learned to give me a treat  without her presence.

Near my home was a temple famous for the five-storied pagoda, and a  fair was held along the approach to it once a month. A relative of ours  had a booth at the fair and my father helped carry merchandise every  month. He never forgot to get some toys for me there when his work was  done. There was no greater pleasure for me than seeing him entering the  house, waving some play house items to me. Of course he was scolded by  my mother when she caught it.

I usually slept beside my grandparents and I had suffered from  chronic insomnia in my childhood. Once in a while, I had a happy  occasion to sleep with my parents when my grandparents were on their  trip. On one of those occasions, my mother was taking a bath when my  father came to futon next to me. Since my parents didn’t know about my  insomnia, he was surprised I was still awake. He thought I couldn’t  sleep because I was too hungry. Not to be caught by my mother, he  stealthily got out of the room, sneaked into the kitchen, made a rice  ball and brought it to me. He told me to finish it before my mother came  out of the bathroom. Seeing me devouring it, he said that he had never  made a rice ball by himself before and didn’t know how. It was surely  the ugliest rice ball, but the most delicious one I had ever had.

My mother also didn’t like to see me cry. She had told me not to cry  because crying made me look like an idiot. While my little sister cried  all the time, I tried not to as hard as I could. But as a small child, I  sometimes couldn’t help it and my mother would get angry with me for  crying. In those cases, my father always said to me, “You’re not crying,  are you? You’re just clearing your eyes, right?” I hadn’t noticed until  recently that there are the exact words in my song ‘Sunrise’. I’ve put  his words unconsciously…

Episode from The Family in Kyoto: One Japanese Girl Got Freedom by Hidemi Woods

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