Encouragement
It never made sense to Paviche Largo. He was never encourages by his father to focus. On his school work, on business, on economics, on the world. He was never encouraged. He was only told he was a disappointment.
He was never given that chance. Pavi remembered listening to his father encourage Luigi when they were just children. He even remembers him pressing Carmela to focus, telling her she needed discipline if she wanted to own GeneCo someday. He never told Pavi that.
Pavi remembers when he was twelve. All he wanted was to make his father proud. He worked so hard, focused, and studies. He often lost himself in his studies. His father took no notice. All he earned was taunting from his brother.
That was when he gave up, and tried only to earn his father's love, not his encouragement, and not his pride.
Now, as he watched his father's last breath fall past his lips, he realized that perhaps his father's lack of acknowledgment was his encouragement. Perhaps his father loved him, most of all.
The first of four chapters in this little story.
Repo! The Genetic Opera