My Day 5 of #7DayPositivityChallenge - "A Letter To My Father"
Horray...
I am almost done. Today is my day 5 of this 7 Day Positivity Challenge. And today I will share with you how grateful I am that I do still have my Father. Sounds deceiving, right? Honestly, I don't have a good relationship with my father but still, I am really grateful that he chooses to stay and to keep disturbing our day, lol.
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Have I told you before that my father and my mother got separated but not legally separated. That's just their choice and I don't think I will interrupt with that but to cut the story short, we do own two houses now and in a walking distance. I am living with my mother and daughter and my father is at the old house where the place turned to boarding house too so it will be an income-generated and he would not stay alone there too. Note that he is still welcome to our house since he usually visits my daughter - her one and only granddaughter so I don't see anything wrong with that.
HOW'S MY RELATIONSHIP WITH HIM BEFORE AND NOW?
During my childhood days, my mother used to tell me that I am so close to my father. It is because he is the one who drives me to school and home until I reached my college journey, he still sent me to school often. When I used to play at my cousin's house, he is the one guarded me and looks over at me. If I am okay, if I am safe, how I am doing, and if I am enjoying, like the normal children, I also experience the beating of the stick when I will go home late and stayed too much playing. And now, everything changes. As the time passes by, I am not that close now to my father. Reasons and truths strike me, partly, became the reason why it changes. Knowing each story, hearing my mother's cries, remembering those times that we (I and my mother) vacated our old house and etc, the way I look my father during my childhood days and now is really a big difference.
Honestly, I still do love my father. No matter what, he is my father. I still do have the respect, love, and care for him but I just don't want anybody knows it. The way I treated him now is not as good as to the other people would see but for me, this is how I will show my love for him. The way how I talk towards him, the way how I move around him, and the way I ask about him on his back, maybe, for now, this would be enough.
Having him on our back no matter how is he as a father, still, I am grateful to have him. For staying behind us even we are not under one roof now, still, you keep coming back and still wanting to come back.
To My Father
Pa, I am really grateful to have you.
I am really grateful that you are my father.
You are not perfect,
And we are not too.
You got your own decisions,
And we got too.
It just that we needed to do all of these
for the sake that we will be all in peace.
We cannot be called as one family
nor a broken family,
but I am very thankful that you keep on coming back
even Mama doesn't want.
Thank you for letting us know that you are still sharing your presence with us,
to us, especially to your one and only granddaughter.
Thank you for looking for us behind our back.
Thank you for continuing loving us even we don't show you what's the truth behind
those talks and acts.
You are not that good father but you are a good person.
You are not that good husband but you are a good grandfather.
You showed me how life so cruel,
You showed me how life should be celebrated.
Thank you for giving me my life. If it is not you, where I am now.
During my college days, I do write a poem about my Father but I think this is not the right time that I will write it since I promised to my Professor that time, I will have the courage to read that poem in front of my father. It was 7 years ago but still, I don't have the courage. But I should push myself the soonest, the better.
P.S.
The photo used in the content is mine.
Taken using my Samsung J1 Mini.
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yes it is good you still have a relationship and allows him to visit his granddaughter
he is always allowed to visit his granddaughter sis...