Which is more important: the tiny conversation or the game?
As I wind down to go to bed a bit earlier (in the hope of some proper shut eye this time!), I thought I would find and play the Tetris game that @new.things found on Hive.
The plan was to play a game. Get a high score (because that's what you do right out the gate, right?! 😀), take a screenshot and then talk about it here.
But first I replied to a message from my Dad.
He lives in Asia, while I live in Australia and so I rarely get to see him. In fact, I've seen him, in person, on two short trips in the past 7 3/4 years.
While I love him dearly, we have pretty different worldviews as this point. So, our conversations are not easy, flowing or joyful.
They're not necessarily hard either, just a little bit stifled, polite, restrainted.
He still wants to be the Dad who knows all the things whose daughter takes his advice (even when she didn't ask for it). Yet, I have become a wise, worldly woman who sees and understands things he will never even try to grok.
Yet, still I love him. He is super smart and could teach me in endless topics that surprise me that he somehow knows anything about. I wish he was better able to talk about hard things and express his emotions but I'm grateful that he does not take his relationship with me for granted.
And I am still grateful to have him in my life, even if he's thousands of kilometres away.
So, even though our text conversation tonight was surface level small talk, I decided that this was more important than seeing if I could somehow play the only real game I ever play (Tetris) on the Hive block chain instead of elsewhere.
Because one day, my Dad will be gone. And I'm sure as hell not going to care if I missed out on optimising my gaming behaviour to make the tiniest bit of HIVE.
(Sunrise photo from my phone camera from somewhere here in Southern Victoria in lieu of a photo of my Dad since he would hate having his photo online. I request I shall respect as long as he lives.)
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NO doubt my sons think the same about me. Especially my oldest son.
It is good you still have your Dad and you are able to have those conversations with him. It can be tough crossing generations with harder conversation sometimes.
It can. Especially if one wasn't ever taught how to have hard conversations or talk about their emotions. It then becomes a skill we have to choose to learn.
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Of course, people over games, even if it's Tetris! It's nice you still have a relationship with him even if he's different ro you and lives so far away.
Your reflection resonates with the truth that wisdom lies in valuing what is essential: love and connection. Choosing to devote time to your father, despite your differences, is an act of fairness and empathy that transcends distance. With every word shared, even superficially, you build a bridge that honours the family bond. The true richness of life lies in these fleeting moments, where inner peace is cultivated by accepting and loving the other as they are. In the finitude of our existence, the most lasting legacy will be the quality of the relationships we cultivate.