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Dearest D.,
Father's Day is coming up, and given that I won't be calling, giving you a card or even texting, I figure I may as well do something to commemorate the day. Forgive me, I'm a creature of habit, and for years I've marked this particular day with some manner of gift or comment just for you, and this year shouldn't be an exception. I suppose the only change is that you won't know of this.
Maybe.
So what do I say for a Father's Day that has no meaning? To a man who forfeited his role and hasn't looked back?
Thank you.
That's it. Thank you.
Thank you for showing my sister and I exactly what we never want to become. For showing us what we never want to end up with. Thank you for showing us it's foolish to trust blindly, and that those who are close to us are also to be watched closely.
Thank you for messing up so horribly that Mum found herself again when she kicked you out of her life. I doubt you care, but she's healthy and she's damn good-looking. She lost the weight that her depression gained her, and gained back the woman she was when you were privileged to have met and dated her. She's finally able to understand that she has every right to happiness now that you're not there to hold her back.
Thank you for bowing out of my life instead of interfering (I know you don't like Corey). Thank you for remaining silent rather than voicing your ill-informed opinion, when your concept of love is so skewed in the first place. Actually, given I've brought Corey up, thank you for showing him the type of man, husband and father he never wants to be. He won't drink because he refuses to resemble you. I'm eternally grateful.
So that's all I can think of saying to a man who by all accounts has failed in the tasks he chose for his life. You were a husband who was never there, and showed your wife what strength really was. You were a father who never cared, and showed your children what it meant to be self-reliant.
You are everything I wish I wasn't associated with, and I thank you with all my heart.
With love,
Me
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| | Posted 6/18/2009 6:19 PM - 2558 Views - 170 eProps - 91 comments
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He sounds like a super guy :)
(That's me trying to be positive...although I feel like I'm being annoying...)