The elder son ran away from home without lifting a foot. He left his father by considering himself a slave and not a son. “Look,” he complained to his father, “all these years, I have slaved for you and not once did I disobey any of your orders; yet you never gave me even a kid goat to feast on with my friends.”
Wala na po palang pag-ibig sa kanyang puso kundi makasariling pakay na lang. Oo nagpaka-alipin siya pero balang-araw ay maniningil siya. “Look, All these years,” sumbat pa niya sa ama, “I have slaved for you.