It’s tough to not be a proud parent, even when your children are walking down paths in life that others think are a bit…shady. For example, when your son gets involved with some awful-sounding group on the internet who do bad things to people, you might think I was horrified. But Cecil has always had a strong moral compass, so I trusted that he was doing the right thing. How often do we see it in the news, a random person everybody hated, rising up to be the hero? I was sort of counting on that.
Things started off so nicely, after all. That app development course he was so happy about. I was happy, even though I barely know what apps are. That’s just how things are with parents, not really keeping up with the technology. App development courses certainly weren’t available back in the day when we went to university. Nope, it was just nursing or teaching, or something about business. I wasn’t too good at that, either. So it was nursing for me. I’m not even sure I’D be doing some app design course if I lived nowadays, because it all just seems very above me. Cecil is such a brainy child. He completed his course, got high marks and was set to be…whatever it is you become after completing one of those courses. I think one of his friends went to work for some big technology company in America. Something with a fruit in its name. I don’t know, I just read the paper and do the crossword.
And now, Cecil is tangled up with some no good people. Part of me wants to run in there and break his computer with a hammer, but at the very least, he’s using his new IT course. Melbourne needs people like him, who’ll rise up against some kind of oppression. And he’s really a nice boy. I know he’ll use his computer/app development know-how for the greater good. Eventually.