Cucumbers (Any correction appreciated :D )

Stay Strong, Cucumbers!

My father has two jobs, a farmer as well as a landscaper. We have a small farm, and we grow many kinds of crops every year. My family members sometimes complain about living in the countryside to my father, because of such problems as trash recycling and supermarkets. (We need to “travel” just to get to a supermarket.) Whenever my father receives lots of complaints from us at a time, he just answers with a smile. Even though I sometimes complain to him, especially when I had to wait for a bus for more than thirty minutes, I know very well that my home is where my heart is.

There have been always cucumbers among the crops, and they have been deeply related to our family history. When the night is still young, all of my family members used to gather in the living room, in front of the TV. Then, my father secretly tiptoed to the front porch like a cat tailing a mouse, and when he came back, there were always five green cucumbers in his tanned rough hands. The cucumbers that were just washed off were, undoubtedly, sweet and cool. Whenever my teeth crunched into the cucumber’s body, I was grateful that I had my house, a garden and a small farm, and that I could enjoy the fresh fruits and vegetables at any time I wanted. However, at the same time, my mind was cluttered with bad ideas like “What would it be like if there were no father who would pick and bring the world’s best cucumbers to me? To us?”

He used to hand over cucumbers, one by one, to my family members, saying “This is my special present for you.” That indeed was a present which had a power to forget that day’s stresses, worries and fatigue over the body. From time to time, we did not just eat cucumbers. Instead, we sliced cucumbers into many pieces, and put them on our faces, lying together. Cucumber facial mask packs are known to have whitening effect, and they are also high in water content. We were not sure if the cucumber on our face was really effective for our skins, but we just enjoyed that time. We cherished those moments because we were together.