(author’s note: Well well well! Lookie what we have here! One of my pictures! Can’t wait to see what the stories prompt up! Here we go.)
Dragonfly
by Miles H. Rost
The names announced. The hats thrown. All that was left were the people as they gathered and started leaving.
Outside of the main auditorium, Quan looked up at the sky as his mother and father were chatting with another group of parents. As they finished, they walked back over to him.
“We’re proud of you, Quan.”
“You made salutatorian, that’s a pretty big honor.”
Quan sighed, as his parents looked at each other, puzzled.
“I could have done better.”
His dad, a former Tianamen Square protester, squared him up.
“Dragonfly, you did the best, and we’re proud. Don’t think otherwise.”
A happy tale, well done.
These are more common than you might thing, especially in Southeast Asian countries. Thanks for stopping in!
Thank you for the photo, Miles.
Shalom,
Rochelle
Glad to drop a few photos. I hope to find more in my collection to drop in! 🙂
Nicely done! Meaningful message, too.
It’s something that I’ve had to teach my students when I was overseas years ago.
These are great parents, support like that means everything.
Parents are only starting to realize now just how important they are in supporting their young ones. I only hope it’ll continue. Thanks for the fly-by!
With supportive parents like that he will do well in life. Thanks for providing the intriguing prompt for this week.
You’re most welcome! To think this all came from a camera phone. XD
He’s a lucky kid with encouraging parents. I see you are holding a bottle of kombucha up and smiling. Good stuff!
Parents like that are good ones. And yes, though up here in the pacific northwest, it gets spendy.