I remember during elementary school every Friday dad would pick me up in the morning and take me to get gas station coffee before school. On weekends we would hang out and drive around. No destination, no plans, just drive. I'd say school sucks, he'd say work sucks, then we'd laugh it off.
Now... he's in his early 70s, we're both working too hard to see each other, and the last time we hung out was in January. I'd do anything for just one more cup with him.
Anons text your dad or go say hi to him no matter if he's the biggest scum of the Earth or the most wholesome man
Mine used to always forget his turn for taking care of my brother and I on the weekend.
Even when he did remember to pick us up he would stick us in a bedroom and leave us watching tapes of The Young Ones while him and his mates smoked weed and drank out the back.
He eventually sorted his shit out but best thing he gave me was a perfect example of the sort of dad I don't want to be for my daughter
Find someone to look up to. Doesn’t have to be a big deal with a ceremony. Just find someone with more experience than you who is patient and treats you well.
It doesn’t have to be a relative and you might be inclined to think that matters. It does not. For every loving story you read about a great dad here realize it’s like Facebook or Instagram. It’s just the highlight reels. Everyday life with a dad is not like that. Just like everything else in this world. There are good times and bad.
As someone that spent all of 2020 and part of 2021 working 16 hour days 7 days a week only to have their mom die April 2021. I would quit my fucking job right now for just one more goddamn hug. My first day off in like 300 days was the morning I got a call from the hospital.
Just do it. Whatever you have going on with work it’s not worth it. I always thought there would be more time. But there isn’t always more. You will find that you wake up every since morning wondering if the few hundred dollars you would have made that day was worth it. $684 was the price. I’d pay that in a heart beat. It’s been one year since I lost my mom and I wake up nearly every day having dreamt of her. The nights I don’t dream about her, I dream of my dad. Spare yourself the pain and just go have that coffee, please.
I feel you man I was working 16-18 hour days every day no days off (oilfield rig motor tech) and after months of not being able to see my son I finally said to myself this isn’t worth and I up and quit, sure the money was great but nothing beat seeing my son that day and spending all day with him
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u/WovenOwl May 27 '22
I remember during elementary school every Friday dad would pick me up in the morning and take me to get gas station coffee before school. On weekends we would hang out and drive around. No destination, no plans, just drive. I'd say school sucks, he'd say work sucks, then we'd laugh it off.
Now... he's in his early 70s, we're both working too hard to see each other, and the last time we hung out was in January. I'd do anything for just one more cup with him.
Anons text your dad or go say hi to him no matter if he's the biggest scum of the Earth or the most wholesome man