The Sunday News
Itai Chipunza
Continued from last week
For my father managing a global property business will be a very great and almost unattainable stride. But because of years of being of service to him and applying what he did in purchasing buildings, I can apply the same knowledge together with what I would have come to learn in buying properties in New York, Tokyo, Shanghai and any big city. This will only come into full effect if I walk in his steps. Following what he says, understanding that I benefit from being of service from him that he does. This is what we call DNA, the very nature of who your father is or was. In your exploitations of the trade that he taught you, he does not become less important. In fact he actually becomes bigger as a father. The more and bigger you achieve he becomes a very great man. For example, I have a father, I call him FATHER, the day I have my son, he will call my father GRAND FATHER, the day my son has a son, that son will call my father GREAT GRAND FATHER.
My children have a higher understanding of how great my father is or was than myself. That is why they give him bigger tittles than just father. They call him great and great grand. Not just father. This is because all these generations are in existence because of him and his efforts. No matter how small they may look if we consider where we are in the present, without his input, none of it would have been possible. To be called grandfather or great grandfather is a great thing. It means you have fathered generations, you are not an average father. Something that is called great, is someone that is above average. The moment I have a son, my father automatically ceases to become an average man, because he has raised a son who has a son himself. He is immediately given the tittle grandfather. He becomes a grand man. He is now a grand man, not just a man but a grand one. If that son of mine has his own son, I become the grand one to him, my father on the other had becomes above grand, he becomes the great grandfather because he fathers more than one generation, he becomes a great grand man. All this greatness and grandness becomes possible because of the initial seeds of fatherhood, nurturing, grooming, rebuke, correction and protection that my father placed in me and I place them in my son and him in his son that make him so great. The great exploits of younger generations make our fathers even greater that they are without these exploits.
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