Monologue

Most influential person in my life was my dad. My dad is someone who doesn’t express his thoughts and feelings to other people even to his family. So I never quite knew what he was thinking. It has been 8 years since me and my dad lived together in U.S. Compare to life in Korea where my mom was always on my back for everything, life with my dad was just more relaxing and free. Even though I was young, my dad never really said anything about what I did. I was basically free to do anything I desired. I thought I was happy not being bother by my parents but I envy those parents who had rules for their children to follow, it looked like an act of care from the parents. I wondered why my dad never intervenes with my life. Craving for his attention, more and more I acted out, not come home without telling and hanging out with people who had bad influences. One day I got tired of acting out, so I simply asked my dad why he never intervene. What he said that day had a great impact on me, he told me that he trusts me to do the right thing and act right. I realized that unlike other parents, my dad had full trust in me. From that day on, I acted right because I didn’t want to betray his trust. His trust, had great influence on my life.