Two Wheels To Nowhere

humansofnewyork:

“I was a cop for twenty-one years. It’s all I ever wanted to do. My father was a cop, and so were both my grandfathers. But I want him to do something else. I’d like him to be able to do a higher level, white-collar kind of thing. You just see so much as a cop. It’s not emotionally clean. So we’re trying to give him all the extra things: tutors, lessons, things like that. I had to hustle my whole life because I wasn’t a good student. And I want things to be different for him. If his grades start to dip, we try to show concern right away. It’s hard to know the right amount of pressure to put on him. That’s the hardest question. We discuss it every day. Luckily he’s made it easy on us so far. Whenever we aim him in the right direction, he runs toward it.”