‘Daddy, Let’s Help This Crying Older Man!’ Little Boy Says and Father Recognizes Man from Past – Story of the Day

While at a park, a boy asks his father to help a crying older man. The father agrees and approaches the man, unaware that it will bring his painful past before him.

Colin often took his 6-year-old son Ethan to the park in the evenings. While Ethan played with his friends, Colin sat on a bench watching him. But one day was different.

That day, while Ethan was playing, Colin was buried in his thoughts about his childhood. Unlike Ethan, Colin didn’t have a very happy childhood. He was an orphan and was adopted by a family, but he didn’t stay with them for very long.

His first adoptive parents, Morris and Jane, took him in as a baby and loved him more than anything in the world, but things began to change a year after he was adopted. Morris and Jane’s relationship lost the spark, and they eventually separated.

After that, Jane found herself another man named Robert, who filled the hole Morris left in Colin’s life. Things finally returned to normal after that, but tragedy struck when Jane died of a heart attack. Robert didn’t get legal custody of Colin, and the boy was transferred back to the orphanage.

One day, Robert visited the orphanage and assured Colin he’d take him back. “I won’t leave you here, Colin!” he said. “I promise I’ll come back soon for you.”

But that day never came. In fact, Robert vanished and never came back looking for him. As a child, Colin never understood why Robert lied to him and abandoned him at the orphanage. But he was soon adopted by a new family and managed to lead a normal childhood.

Several years passed, and Colin had a family of his own. However, his past would still bite him, as it did that day in the park. “I will never abandon Ethan. I will never do what Robert did to me!” Colin vowed to himself while still deep in thought.

Suddenly, Ethan came running up to him. “Daddy, daddy! Someone needs help! A man is crying there, daddy!” he cried, interrupting Colin’s thoughts.

“Huh… where?” Colin inquired, taken aback by the abrupt distraction.

“There, Daddy!” Ethan said, pointing to a nearby bench where an older man was crying and wiping his tears. “He asked me to go get him some water. I told him I couldn’t leave the park without first telling you. We should help him, daddy!”