Father's Day

I meant to write this yesterday, but whatever.  I had to work, I was tired, I felt like doing nothing last night and that's what I did.  It was nice.  I called my dad.  We talked.  No big deal, just borderline awesome.  It's always fun to talk with him.  We talk a lot of sports, weather, fishing, idiot politicians.  Stuff like that. 

I know at one time or another during all of our lives, we have all said the following:  'I don't want to be like my parents.'  Now that I have I grown up (kind of) I am going to put this out there.  My dad is one of the greatest role models I have had in my life.  I know that growing up, most kids want to say that movie stars, athletes, writers, etc. are their role models, but the greatest one that you can have is your dad. 

Dad raised us all to be good, moral adults, but when you are growing up you don't think about that.  You want to grow up to be some rich well known person and have an easy life, but guess what, life isn't easy.  The only way that you can get through having a rough go at life is to be raised by a strong person that you can look back and say to yourself 'if I go about my daily life like my parents did, I can get through this.'

Much like my dad, I don't get that emotional, so if you are trying to picture me sniffling and crying a little bit while writing this because I am thinking back at my childhood and writing about how much I look up to my dad now, you can get off it.  It doesn't work that way.  These are just the facts.  Some of the best times of my adult life are having beers and talking with dad.  Just about random stuff.  Case in point:  the last time my parents came down to visit, we went to a baseball game, drank one dollar beer, talked about the sport and how independent teams like the ones we were watching are the great teams because they are playing because they want to play not because they are making millions of dollars each year.






This post is for you Dad.  Thank you for raising me to be just like you, as scary as that is to think about.