My uncle (dad's brother in law) is v sick
he is among the top best men alive (I mentioned him here before- I said something like, he is a better, more intelligent, more educated, more cheerful and sweetly funny version of Atticus Finch).
My second son's middle name is after him.
(I couldn't make it the first name because that's after my cousin who is also a v good man, although in a totally different way.(
He is a PhD professor of physics and he came from a village and he worked his way to that with his incredible mind.
He is the best husband possible to his wife
(who met him in the village called Tandojam and he was the neighbour of my dad's family. And she is not intelligent at all, in fact she is very pretty and cute but unintelligent, but she is good at decorating and designing clothes. Apparently they never directly spoke to each other once, but they knew they liked each other, so he sent the proposal to her family.
But my grandfather, her dad, told her she could only marry him if first she completed a Degree. So my uncle's best friend helped her cheat on everything so she could graduate and get married.
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He is a very humane man, very amazing to everyone, very gracious, very loving, very noble.
Also v intelligent, genius level. Stephen Hawking level. He's actually written a book about some theory related to physics and connecting it to philosophy but I don't know what it's called.
Also he became paralyzed from a stroke and my dad helped him do rehabilitation because my dad says he thinks of him as Pip thought of Joe Gargery, in 'Great Expectations.'
If anyone here has read that book they would have some idea of how pure my uncle's heart is, for him to be compared to Joe Gargery. Not education-wise, but the generous and pure soul.
He is also graceful, tall, and handsome despite being rigid in walking due to his health problems. I think if anyone met him, the words 'angel' and 'pure class' would pop in their mind first.
He is such a good person right now he is in ICU because his CO2 level is too high and he is in pain, because his lungs stopped working.
I'm sad that he's in pain but when I mentioned it to my dad he said, 'but you know for people like that, death will lead them to a better world.'
Like that's how good he is. Even my XH had recognized how good of a man he is, and let me name my son after him, and that cousin of mine.
So I'm v sad but I'm trying to think positive and imagine his soul entering a better world where he will never be in pain.
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