当我老去的时候(When I was old when)

Dear son...

　　The day that you see me old and I am already not, have patience and try to understand me …

　　If I get dirty when eating… if I cannot dress… have patience.

　　Remember the hours I spent teaching it to you.

　　If, when I speak to you, I repeat the same things thousand and one

　　times… do not interrupt me… listen to me

　　When you were small, I had to read to you thousand and one times the same story until you get to sleep…

　　When I do not want to have a shower, neither shame me nor scold me…

　　Remember when I had to chase you with thousand excuses I invented, in order that you wanted to bath…

　　When you see my ignorance on new technologies… give me the necessary time and not look at me with your mocking smile…

　　I taught you how to do so many things… to eat good, to dress well… to confront life…

　　When at some moment I lose the memory or the thread of our conversation… let me have the necessary time to remember… and if I cannot do it, do not become nervous… as the most important thing is not my conversation but surely to be with you and to have you listening to me…