Kurangkan Makan Ice Cream Untuk Kuruskan Badan

Semasa aku berumur 15 tahun,
Daddy aku bawa aku makan ice-cream.

Ice-cream Haagen Daz.
Perisa Belgium Chocolate.

Aku makan, hampir habis satu tong.
Seingat aku,
selama 15 tahun aku hidup,
Aku tidak pernah rasa ice-cream coklat selazat ice cream itu.

"Daddy, ini ice-cream special ke?"

"Yes, it's Haagen Daz. One of the best brands for ice-cream. Expensive tau."

Ketika itu, terlintas di fikiran aku,
Mengapa Daddy aku membawa aku makan ice-cream mahal sebegini?

Aku kata,
"Daddy, now that you let me taste Haagen Daz, the best ice-cream, I don't ever want cheap ice-cream anymore!"

Daddy pandang aku,
tetapi ekpresi mukanya tenang,
Seperti kemenangan.
Aku pun pelik.

Dia jawab,
"I let you taste Haagen Daz, so that YOU KNOW how GOOD it is.
Now, remember the feeling, how good it feels to have the best things in life.
Today is my treat.
Once you're grown up, it's going to be you and your treat only.
You've tasted the best, and I don't want you to settle with anything lesser.
Even you, would not be satisfied settling with anything lesser.
But you need to work hard to keep it.
To keep the best things in life.
It's going to be you and your treat only."

Hari itu, aku pulang dan tulis dalam diari aku,
"I want to be able to eat Haagen Daz, anytime I want."

Have the best things in life.
Aim for the stars.

To get this,
Aku di ajar untuk berdikari.
Aku di ajar TIDAK harapkan orang lain.

Maka,
Apabila dengan USAHA sendiri, aku BOLEH memiliki ice-cream yang aku impikan,

Bagaimana kau & kau:
Harap & mahukan aku settle for anything, lesser?