This is my father's day wish for you. I won't go into what my father was like and
try to pick some of that encounter as blame for who I am or what I have
done. What I will do is tell you that
just as I was who I am, I want you to be the same. There will never be another me or you so what
I wish for you is to be who you are and I will do my best to support you to the
maximum amount possible.
As you well know, I spent my life working hard and thanks to
the savings ability of your mother we have parlayed it into a pretty good life and
future. For me, I always tried to work
hard and sometimes it worked. I think
that being smart some of the time instead of working so hard might have been a
better thing. To this day, I still want
to jump on a job and engross myself and find ways to make things work instead
of just stopping and thinking about the ways it might work first. The good news is that this approach has
worked for ambushes and small problems.
One of the things I have and will continue to do is to
encourage you live your choices. I see
ways to do things differently than you do and there is a lot of time I just need
to bite my tongue and move on. I want
you have the same chance of failure and success that I had. I know you are smart and I marvel at the
things you can do and how well you can do them.
I hope that in the end of all this life, you have mixed
emotions about me. I hope you love me as
you know I love you. I hope in some ways
you hate me because I set the bar high in a lot of ways. I would prefer there be a lot more love than
hate but the balance is yours not mine to make.
Back to the beginning of this piece, I truly want you to be
who you are without any doubt. Do what
you can do and be what you are. It has
been my lot in life that hard work for me was the route to success. I might want you to aim that way, but throw
in a lot of your smart and you will be happy.
Try not to judge your life by mine.
We have had a lot of things happen differently and the results can't be
the same.
The good news is that I won't live forever. I hope that in your heart I will live a
little bit longer than my body has. I
also hope that it is a fond memory and you can remember smiles as well as
frowns.
MUD, aka Dad
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