I have a classmate back in my schooling days who always comes to school and goes back straight right after school ends.
He does not attend any CCA as well at all.
Even when we have to do group work, we would always have to go to his house to do it.
Whenever we asked him out to go to town or even to study, he would always say that he cannot make it.
At that time, he shared that this was the instructions of his father.
He was like a caged bird, only allowed to stay at home.
We caught up recently, and he shared the real reason
I caught up with him recently and jokingly asked him how come he could come out all of a sudden and he shared with me the real reason why he was not allowed outside in the past.
He said that back in the day, his father used to worked a job which would easily offend a lot of people and he was quite well known in the circle.
He shared that in some heated arguments with the people that he was dealing with in his job, they would often tell him to ‘watch out’ for his back and his family’s back.
Out of concerned for his safety, his dad had only allowed him to go to school for fear that these people would really take revenge on him.
He also said that whenever he asked why, his dad would always tell him not to probe so much and be quiet.
It was only until his dad left the job that he found out that his dad was actually trying to protect him and now that he is grown up and the ‘situation’ then already died down, he was allowed to go out like a normal human being.
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