I just couldn’t let this Daddy’s Day end without writing
something about our Daddy dearest.
People who have known me or our family so well would
definitely agree when I say that our Father wasn’t a Perfect Father to me and
my 2 siblings or even a Perfect Husband to our Mom. The transition of our lives
from Childhood to Teenage stage was barely even witnessed by our father. There
were many happy memories that we only got to share with our Mom and even had a
lot of sad and tough times we had to surmount without him.
When you are younger, you only have such little ability to
grasp what is really happening yet all you can do is to hope and pray for
things to go back to normal. But as you grow older and you go through life and
its many surprises, you learn to understand and accept that things sometimes
goes out of hand, plans fail, feelings change and people come and go. You will
know when to stop hoping for things that seems unlikely to happen but you start
building dreams, move on and move forward.
Like what we all did. I finally stopped hoping for our
family to be complete again when I was in college. I guess it’s because of the
fact that both our parents have long accepted and moved on with their own
lives. But then again, God really has his own way of granting your prayers even
at the times when you have given up on things..but of course we also have our
Father to thank with for realizing his faults, asking for forgiveness and
finally deciding to make things right. Also to our Mother for accepting him back again
and giving him another chance not to be a Perfect but a Better Husband and Father to us three. The 13 long and challenging years of our lives with his
bare presence seemed to have just never existed. We may have been all grown and
matured persons when he came back to us but the child within us felt
unimaginable happiness.
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| Mom and Dad with their Grand children Eana, Miko and MM |
This post is for our Dad, we pride ourselves in saying that
it’s not only during this kind of occasions do we get to express how much we
love and value him as our father. He may have been physically and mentally
absent during our growing up years but he is making it up to his grandchildren
now.
There are still moments of him
asking for forgiveness and feeling guilty of many things he could and could
have not done in the past and we never get tired of telling and showing him that we love him just the same.
Yes, he is not PERFECT and so are all of us. Despite all the
odds, We still love and will continue to love him nothing less.
He’s one of the best blessings one could ever have.
Happy Father’s Day Daddy-Yo, We always pray for your good
health. We Love you.
