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Chapter 3 - Dad
I knew that Dad didn’t want to talk about it and I think that this was the only real barrier between us both. I mean I could tell this guy anything. But talking about Mum was just too hard on him. As the years went by, I just let it go.
I could see him thinking of her sometimes. The pictures that surrounded him were like a 3D movie. Mostly all it took was to place my forehead on his and say “I see you!”
He’d smile and hug me or wrestle me of something. It was like a sort of example that he wanted to set for me or something. His eyes would get pretty glassy sometimes, but never cry.
I’d asked so many questions about Mum when I was younger that I felt like I knew her so closely and personally as a Mum should be. Dad described her character to me so well and from the photos and videos I just felt so good that she was my mum. I felt that she was like a spiritual guide for me. Any doubts of uncertainties that I had in life, I would just think and she would be there. It was like some type of spiritual telepathy was going on between us and I never doubted the decisions that I would make under her guidance.
He told me so much about her, but there was a big missing time frame from when I was born up to where she left her body and although I sort of had a knowingness about this, I so much wanted to fill this void in my life.
Dad said that when the time comes he will tell me everything that happened. “I promise you my son” he told me. But as the years went on, I still wondered if the time I was ready would ever really come.
We’d been working though some pretty heavy study with Physics, Chemistry and 4 Unit Maths being the path I had chosen. Although a 2 Units in Music was a lot of fun and just about the best thing going during the school week, I had chosen to follow a Civil Engineer path with the idea of taking on a Degree in Law to back it up.
I knew that with Engineering and Law I would be able to give myself to most certainty in a career with an actual reality and the protection of a Law Certificate to keep the parasites away.
The career advisers have been pushing this Psychiatric and Psychologist career path for so many years now. But all I see is the zombie crowd getting bigger and bigger each year one after another bright soles being trapped. It seemed to me that we were fighting the biggest war to date. From my observation, we have World War III right here at our doorstep. Only it is a holy war. And a war of magnitude it has become.
I couldn’t help but keep thinking of a planet that has water resource for all. They have been spreading the propaganda that we have an overpopulated planet and the reason for war and famine is simply because there is not enough room.
But every time I looked at the planet from the window of the plane on so many flights with Dad, all that I could see was land, land and more empty land.
So much land, but “not enough room!” Just seemed like such a lie and all that has consumed me to this day is how to unravel this lie. There is water in abundance and land more than 50 Billion wouldn't even put a dint in. For me the question seemed simple. "How do we get the water to flow?"