It is a wise love, because it turns tears into smiles, because it protects us with pampering, because it guesses our desires and because it takes away our fears.
Grandparents are trees of life. They have already lived and survived bad weather, rebuilt after devastation and returned to populate forests and woods with their seeds, in order to protect the greatest treasure that is life.
It is perhaps this knowledge and the experiences gained throughout life that makes them eternal.
With grandparents we learn to be children. They provide us with time and infinite patience for restless games, offer us the solutions for out tantrums, excuse our disobediences and transform our insecurities into courage.
With grandparents we can be irreverent teenagers. They open the door for us with smiles and hugs of complicity. They listen calmly to our complaints, confide in us secrets to better understand the reasons and doubts of our anguish, respect our silences and nourish our dreams.
With grandparents we reinvent ourselves as adults. They bless our projects, advise us in our choices, accept our defects and praise our virtues.
These guardians of love, grandparents, will always be present in our lives because they were the ones who showed us the beauty and true meaning of the word gratitude.
