A tribute to the family*
A tribute to the family
Sometimes we are asked if we are proud of our children who give us so much zest and have decided all five to follow the path of medicine as we, their parents. I answer that in a certain sense, yes.
However, not as in the error of demonstrating a kind of vain vanity, exposing them as a trophy, on the contrary, we humbly accept and rejoice the divine grace bestowed upon us.
Most remarkable of all this is the great satisfaction they have given us; it is as if we were craftsmen that we did a well-finished work.
Thus, exhibited in an art museum of open-air life, we daily admire a great work of art of exceptional quality, which was made to the quatri mani, but which no longer belongs to us; it is not to be envied or copied, because it would not make any sense, because our lives are unique and individualized; is to be divided with all and contemplated by the world as a testimony of greatness that a family can produce by the hands of GOD.
Paulo Rebelo, the doctor in poetry.