What a beautiful write-up! 👍🏼
So true. God bless you for writing this.
Just like women have been an important influence on a man's life...
men have also been an important influence on a woman's life.
My life has been heavily influenced by men...
the only woman who plays a signifcant role in my life is my mother and a few significant friends.
But I absolutely adore my mom. No one can replace her.
Out of all the various family bonding and friendships and relations,
I find the most unique and the least talked about relationship is the father-daughter bond.
There is a certain pride of manliness you can see in the daughter and a certain pride of gentleness you can see in the father of certain relationships.
My father is my first love and my most special love...
but we have never really spoken about it.
He knows. And I know. (Maybe even my husband knows about it too...)
But the truth is, not every father can be a "daddy".
I loved it when I was a kid and my dad worked hard to earn for his family and then would come home tired but happy...just to get a little hug from me.
He is not very good at displaying emotions with me, put I picked up the hints along the way...
as I grew older, he would gently hold my hand so that I could safely cross the roads with him in heavy traffic...
the way he held my hand in his for just a few seconds in public told me a lot that he never said...
And now, I am a grown woman and he is an old man...and he still remains my first love...
I know that because when we try to make grown-up conversations now, he doesn't feel the need to talk...
silent tears from his eyes shows the comfort level of our father-daughter bond...
it says a lot more than words ever can.
I know my father is proud of the woman I am today.
It is one of those strange relationships where two people have given a part of themselves to each other...
so that the "man" lives forever in the "woman".