Today is 1st January 2012.
A new day , a new start in everyone's life.
This day has held the most significance in my life.
It's my dad's birthday today.
The sunrise, the new year din't feel any different.
And i as i sit waiting for my dad to return home so that i feel the importance of this day, i'm gonah write this post.
Growing up as a child to this man, has been the best part of my life.
My entire life has been about doing things to match up the legacy of my dad.
Doing things with the exact grace and style just like my dad.
The cliched feeling of having an ignorant dad, i realize now was so stupid.
As teenagers we all beg for attention. Any amount of attention doesn't satisfy us.
As the saying goes "By the time a child realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong."
I don't want to be one of those.
For i realize whatever he's done for me and my siblings, most of the dads don't do it for their kids.
Also, I'd never thought this ignorance as i phrase it, is going to become my biggest strength in coming years. Everything perfectly makes sense now. Of course with plenty of efforts mom put in for dad to seem like this faultless man i think he is. God is none other but my mom. Masking himself very well.
Eventually everything dad did started making sense.
Everything he stopped me from doing also made sense for that matter.
He was always behind everything i was able to do.
And as i believe i've been lucky to have a father like him, who'd provide you with the humongous amount of protection and support, incredible amount of love and great deal of affection.
Dad's have their ways, they always remains special no matter what.
I'm thankful to him, that he's given me the best childhood ever.
not just me, having grown up with 2 more sisters and a brother, a parent will have to put in a great deal of effort to satisfy all their wants and needs.
And i can proudly say my dad did that job like none other.
We'd have these stores to ourselves, go pick up anything you want.
I've never longed for anything since everything i wanted, i got it immediately.
And as i grew up i started learning from everything he did.
From giving the utmost attention to your family to helping out people in their misery.
For a minute lets forget everything he's done for us, the great deal of charity he does is also remarkable.
I just love my dad for this.
He's pulled out his best friend from deepest family and financial trouble.
From providing education to kids with less fortune, to providing shelter and support to a best friend of mine who was going through a though psychological phase.
And as i realized most of them don't return favor to him. I had also come across this extremely disloyal person whom dad helped. But that didn't deter my dad from helping others.
For he believes what we have in abundance we can always give away a bit.
and i believe its the love he gives away.
Speaking of which, he's the most polite and down to earth man i've ever come across.
He maybe proud of what he's achieved, but never goes on bragging about it to others.
Irrespective of people he loves or hates, people who are superior or inferior to him, he respects them all. The great deal of politeness he shows in just amazing.
He's also blessed with an unmatched humor. Sitting and talking to him i so funny at times.
Oh which also reminds me i will never understand why he dint excel in arts, he's an amazing sketcher.
He can sketch almost anything, with exact details.
I remember him sketching a portrait of Mahatma Gandhi for my eldest sisters history project. Ditto it looked, as if someone xerox copied the actual portrait. And another instance where he'd sketched his own portrait from a passport size photograph.
Well, with a family size like this, he obviously knew he wouldn't be able to make much living out of sketching. Haha.
Nevertheless. What is more important he's molded into all his roles perfectly.
Best dad, good husband, great son, lovely brother and top class businessman.
I love you Dad.
