Smile Across Miles

Smile Across Miles

This is one of my photographs I had taken by my father when I was four.
I came across this one while cleaning up my room just the other day.
The site is the baseball park where my father would take me.

I remember playing catch with him there. Looking at many of my photos taken
in my childhood, one thing I notice is: rarely do I have
a smile on my face, which is probably reflective of my emotional state
back then. Father being absent from home often, I have no recollections
of my sharing the dinner table with both of my parents together. Father left
me soon after this photograph was taken.

Looking at my son's photos, however, I've noticed that he looks completely
different. In every single photograph, he is beaming as if he were enjyoing
every moment of his life to the fulluest extent. I am really happy for him.

Smile touches you
Smile shines the world
Smile travels across miles

いい写真ですね。
聡明そうな男の子・・・幼いのに自我の強さを感じます。
ひとりで世界に立ち向かっているようです。

きよりさん、確かに自我は強かったと思います。聡明に見えるようにも思いますが、妙に口元に力が入っていて、自然じゃないですね。撮ったのは父親だと思います。