Grand Prize🏆 "100% Unrequited Love Baby I love you so I love you baby"

Manazashi Photo Club First Period Photo Contest "Manazashi" Grand Prize
Since the birth of my son and daughter, I've often seen my father acting all doting.
Seeing her sleeping face → becoming lovey-dovey, seeing her eating → becoming lovey-dovey, playing → becoming lovey-dovey.
His default face is supposed to be sullen, but I'm amazed that it can collapse like that.

But actually, I knew he'd had that look on his face for a long time.

He would see me sleeping before going to work (← he was awake, but I left him alone because he was sleepy), he bought me cream puffs when I had a cold (and he would make coffee and bring it to me. Is he a cafe employee?), and when I got drunk he would preach to me, "Eriko, do what you love with all your heart, that's the best thing."
No matter what, I always knew that behind that sullen facade there was a passionate "I love you."

Now that I'm a parent, I feel my father's love all the more.
Dad, thank you for loving me so much. I'm sorry I treated you all so badly because I was embarrassed.
Actually, I prefer regular cakes to cream puffs. There are still some things I don't understand, but I quite like this dad.

I wonder how much of that warm gaze I can give to my children that I received from my father.
Even if they treat me badly like I did to my father, that's fine. Unrequited love is the best. Hey, Dad, isn't that right? Please say it is.

Recently, my father became the founder of the "Grandpa Religion" and brainwashes his daughter by asking her "Grandpa? Grandpa?" I hope the first word she says is Grandpa.


Photo and caption: seki



Comment from Advisor

It was as if I was remembering when I had just become a mother, and this photo made me think that this is the kind of happiness that can be found anywhere. The father gazing lovingly at the child, the child looking completely unaware, and Seki watching them. I'm sure he was directing the "gaze he received from his father" at the two of them. This photo really touched me, as it reminded me of emotions I had forgotten. Thank you. And congratulations!

Comment: Etsuko Aibu (Advisor of the Manazashi Photo Club)


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