Sunday, 8 February 2009

Daddie, I miss you, I miss your emails, I miss the things you say, I miss seeing you, and thinking of you makes me cry all day. I feel so sad that I didn’t spend as much time with you as I wanted to and I’m sorry for that. I wanted to let you know how much I love and miss every moment with you. Whenever I think about you, I only have amazing memories of me growing up in your arms. I remember you would carry me whenever I get tired of walking, as I’d be trying to catch up with the rest of the family. I remember that you’d come home from work and the first thing you would do is to look for me to play with you. I remember you’d make these silly noises and funny impressions just to get me to me laugh at what you were doing. I remember you’d ask me to slow dance with you, with both my feet on top of your black vantovel shoes. I remember you always wanting to surprise me whenever I’m not looking your way and yet you’d fail because I’d end up catching you anyways. I remember you being the only person who never forgot which food I wanted to eat for dinner and would come back home from work bringing it in your arms. I remember you would pick me up from crying, tapped my back gently, held me close and asked me what had happened, as if whatever I had to say was important for you to hear.

Although perhaps you’re not aware of how much influence you have on me, I have learned a lot from watching you and listening to you. I want you to know that you’ve made me feel like I can do whatever I wanted to do with my life. That there isn’t anything I can’t be and nothing that I should be afraid of pursuing if I wanted it enough. You’ve taught me to go grab my dreams regardless of what people might say to change my mind because it is my life I’m living. I’ve learned how important it is to find the time to travel, to see and learn new things about other cultures in order to understand and know more about the world I’m in. You’ve taught me how important it is to always keep an open mind in order have broader knowledge about life and be able to see things from different perspectives. You’ve taught me that life isn’t easy, and that sometimes we’re going to have to do things we don’t like but we should still try to work through them even though it’s tough. You’ve taught me to always be prepared for the worse to happen because there are just some things in this world that we cannot seem to control sometimes. And most importantly, you’ve showed me how important it is to be patient with life whenever things are bad and to still remain humble whenever things are good.

They say there isn’t such thing as perfection in this world, but I know that’s not true because to me you are the perfect father. No matter what it is that you say or do I will always be so proud to have you as my dad. I’ll always hold my head up high and be so thankful that I have you to look up to in my life. You are the reason why I am where I am today and there are no words that can express how much I love you. You are not only the best father I know but you have officially become the coolest man I know in my life, and most likely ever.

I miss you asking me to update your iPod with the songs on my iTunes, dad. And I can’t wait to come back home and do that for you again so we can listen to them in your awesome vintage car. ☺

I love you and I miss you.

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