No longer daddy's girl

Dad has always been my favorite,not because mum died leaving him to take up the responsibilities of both parents but I've always admired him and seen him as a wonderful person. Even when mum was alive I seemed to get along well with him more as mum and I were always arguing and disagreeing. A common phenomenon between teenage daughters and their mothers.
Dads seem to pamper and understand their daughters more.

But no one prepares the daughter for the time she will have to leave her father, for a time when she will have to go far away from home either to work or to study. No one prepares the daughter for a time she will need to find her source of livelihood on her own, no one tells her that a time will come when she will only be able to speak to her father on phone. No one reminds her that her father has his own life to live and is on a journey on this planet like every other person. That her father is just a caretaker who will eventually need care himself when he grows old. No one reminds her that he can't be with her wherever she goes forever. No one reminds her that her father will leave the world someday. No one tells her that she won't be daddy's girl forever.. the harsh realities of growing up.

Today we celebrate all the wonderful fathers in the world. Those men who regard women, those fathers who have given all it takes to care for their children, those fathers who have always been present at every stage of their children's life, those fathers who have laboured on their children, fed them, clothed them, educated them and above all set them up to stand on their own.

Even though the realities of adulthood has set in and i'm closer to becoming a parent myself..remembering all that my siblings and I have been through together with dad I will still send my dad hugs and kisses wishing him a happy father's day..