Belated Father’s Day greeting
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Well, I forgot about Father’s Day again this year. It’s not that I wasn’t aware that it was coming up, but it was pushed to the back of my mind. I didn’t even think to write about it last week, or the week before. Sorry, dad.
A lot of the time, being a parent is a thankless job. I can’t speak from the perspective of a parent, but I have parents and I know that a lot of the time I forget to give them the recognition they deserve for all they’ve done, and continue to do, for me.
Fathers especially seem to go without recognition. I mean, what do you even give a dad as a gift? I don’t know if every dad is like this, but mine always says he doesn’t need anything. He tells me to save my money.
“C’mon dad, you know there’s something out there that you want!”
Not according to him.
All of this Father’s Day forgetting really had me thinking about just how often dads fall by the wayside. Forgetting Father’s Day actually brought about a profound thought: forgetting Father’s Day is actually kind of fitting. Hear me out.
Sure, most fathers work hard, day in and day out, but how often does their work go unrecognized? Growing up, our house always had working appliances and mowed grass and food on the table. Dad worked long hours and then came home and fixed things that were broken, or painted something, or helped with homework… sometimes until we were in an hour long fight about the square root of pi.
My dad is one of the most hardworking people I know, but I can’t really remember thanking him for all he’d done for me until I reached my adult years.
I can remember thanking my mom for many things. My mom was a homemaker throughout the majority of my childhood so I was able to observe much of her labor. My dad’s contributions, while just as important, would often times go unnoticed.
Look at it this way, you might have a wonderfully beautiful home that you appreciate because you look at it every day, but you probably don’t think too much about the necessity of that home’s foundation. That’s kind of how I see dads.
Dads are the foundation. They’re a vital component to the structural integrity of the family… but sometimes we forget.
Do we step out our front door, walk around the side of our house, and thank the foundation? I’m guessing the answer to that question is no. Although it would be pretty funny if this was customary.
Time to publicly give that foundation a shoutout.
Dad, you’ve done so much for me in my life. You would work endlessly long shifts and still never missing a baseball, or soccer game, or anything else that was important to me. You taught me to ride a bike, how to drive, how to believe in myself, and to never take life too seriously.
Even with all that comes along with fatherhood, you’ve always maintained your silly ways. You’re an eternal jokester. So… hey, Dad! You many not ask for much, but I see you, I appreciate you, I thank you, and most importantly, I love you.
Celebrate fathers every single day.
