This weekend is Fathers' Day. Like other made up holidays like Mothers' Day and Valentine's Day, I believe that the creation of such "holidays" is a crock. It is promoted to create card and restaurant sales and has nothing much deeper as a purpose. However, it does remind me that being a father is one of the most profoundly life changing events that can occur in a man's life. I tell new parents to be that having a child is going to change their life like no other event they will ever experience, other than having another child. As well as being life changing it is a deeply positive experience. The concept of unconditional love is nothing more than a concept until you witness the birth of your child and then you understand completely. I have had the benefit of having three wonderful children and two wonderful stepchildren. I feel humbled and totally incapable of the requirements of such a position but I love it and wouldn't trade it for anything. I may have dinner with one or more of my children on Fathers' Day and I will probably get a card from most of them. I think that is totally unnecessary but I appreciate it and more accurately, appreciate the opportunity to experience fatherhood, one the of the greatest things that can happen to a man. If I did anything right, as a father, I learned it from my Dad.
Thanks, Dad. I love you.
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