Mario Mètonou: the “annoying” habit of his father that changed his life

During his revelation, Mario Mètonou talked about a peculiar habit of his father, a retired finance administrator, who would routinely inquire about his school results.

“My father had a habit. Every time you come home at noon, he asks you about what you’ve done. If you’ve had a test, especially when you’re under assignment, he says ‘So, you’ve worked?’ You say ‘Yes.’ ‘How much?’ Then, he asks you the same question several times a day. In the evening, when you come back, he asks you exactly the same question. And it annoyed me”, confessed Mario Mètonou.

From annoyance to gratitude …

This perception changed when one of his friends, clearly upset, confessed that no family member showed interest in his school activities.

“Except that I had a friend at the time who is my neighbor. Their house was next to ours. He was in the same class as me. And he tells me… I was in sixth grade. I remember it very clearly. He comes to see me. He was very sad. And I ask him the question ‘Why are you so sad?'”, revealed Mario Mètonou before sharing a secret of his friend.

“He tells me ‘Mario, at home, no one cares about what I become, what I do at school,’ he said.

“And there was such depth, such sadness in his gaze that it made me realize how lucky I was to have parents who cared about what I did in my day, who cared about the grades I got, who cared about my state of mind, how I behaved at school”