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I am writing this article one week late of the actual event and around four years early for the actual experience.
About to be 34, I am still neck deep in the throes of bachelor-ism simply because the bravery requirement to take the plunge into married life has not kicked in. Either it’s a very latent gene or I’m a regular perfectionist romantic believing (or fooling myself) in the right time and place.
Whether or not the “right time” actually exists, I realize (a tad more definitely now) that the man’s urge to commit to marriage is ACTUALLY a man’s urge to commit to family: To becoming not just a husband but also becoming a father.
While there are many celebrated successes and sacrifices on the path to fatherhood, I eagerly await the simple memories and epiphanies about fathers and families that make it worth the hoopla.
The little girls who take your big fingers into their small hands and hang on for dear life.
The sons who hug back.
The small face that looks back at you with your own eyes.
I look forward to the day when I can genuinely earn the title and MORESO, the responsibility; and give my children trips to the zoo or airplane rides on my broad shoulders and massive arms or fetch them from school or read the newspaper together.
I believe no other joy compares.
That rainy day my cousin-in-law and the god of baking went ahead and left the country to build his family’s future, I was witness to one of the few most genuine moments of connection between two human beings.
At the final goodbye moment, without uttering a word, father tells son that everything will be better. Son tells father that he is missed already.
It’s moments like these that make everything worthwhile.
thanks for this…came at the right time. i thought i needed a beer.
Comment by bigmamah — June 24, 2008 @ 11:01 am
Happy Father’s Day to all the DAD’S!
Comment by billy — June 24, 2008 @ 7:45 pm
Waaaaaaaaaaaaaa sob sob sob.
Comment by EJ — July 4, 2008 @ 4:42 am
Too bad i didnt come across this blog before. Great stuff you got here. Thanks.
Comment by Psychic Advice — July 14, 2008 @ 6:58 pm
A father’s love is unrivaled.
Comment by betina — August 15, 2008 @ 7:47 pm