Father's Day Tribute with Honor

My father rooted me within the ideals of thinking within your own manner yet never passing judgment unless it had a reason for it. I fondly remember as a child when he would give me these certain things to think about within my youth. A truly wise man, which many often confided with within in his work and outside of work. Having being raised within a small town in western Canada to then rising up ranks within the air force he literally embellished his work while at the same time ensuring that the family was set within a good pathway. How often he would exchange with me areas of which literally surpassed most any books I have read to this point within my life.  Having an older brother and sister, I arrived at the time where he had decided to move forward into an area within the Canadian government whereby he was appointed within a diplomatic status.  Yes, he thrived on his work and those that surrounded him.

On his days off it was that luxury of spending time with my mother. For that matter it was with the family as well – pending what was happening. I recall the days where we he would have me sit down and throw me a few questions. Some of which were based on morality. I guess he was grooming me within those youthful years. Some of which still stand with me to this very day.

I know that we all can be very biased when it comes to family. Yet that said, he influenced me and then by the time I was within my teens. Rather than being as conservative as with my older brother – he gave me the allowance to figure things out as well as earn my own way. As he was of the nature that you make it on your own and you deal with things within your own way. I guess I was had been shaped or what we call brought up.

Within later years, we would always call on the horn pending where I was just to see how I was doing. It never made me feel that I had to meet up to his expectations. Anything but - yet it was obvious that he was interested to see what I was doing.  As I had my own - which he came to realize by the time I was within my early twenties. As he retired and returned into Canada. In my formative years, I was curious as can be. I would ask questions and I never knew a man that had read so many books. Within later years, he was always there when and if, I had a question. For the most part, he would leave me with no answer but a few things to think on.

He was hit with cancer and it nearly took his life back some ten years ago now. Yet he has carried on. If there is one thing, which does apply within this fathers’ day is that we have an understanding. One of which we do speak at times on. But most of all I see my father as doing tremendous things within his years – coupled with ensuring that there was some validity of how the family was doing and would do within future years.  The other night I read something about fear. It’s obvious that there are some merits in characteristics, which came by way of my upbringing between him and my mother.  I think most of all what I have appreciated from my father the most is to be thoughtful, to understand that there are merits within abiding by some codes or moralities.

I myself have been married but thank god, I didn’t have any children. Don’t get me wrong here but I could never be a deadbeat father. I guess that just come with morals. Therefore, as I am divorced, but have had some very nice women come into my life. I look at the manner that my father’s relationship with my mother – coupled with the people that they have known for years from a variety of places. I met him today and we all had a good talk and although age and cancer have taken a toll on him. Still to this very day there is something within him, which does maintain that mannerism of which still to this day he keeps in touch with most all of his old colleagues. The greatest attributes that I believe that I learned from my father was due diligence as well as a moral code. There are areas within history of which my father has played an intrinsic part with, yet while being brought up, he never missed a thing as a father. To this day when I ask him any question on international affairs he can reference it back in time as well as indicated logically what he thinks.

The man has smarts and through all these years, I am very proud to say that he is my father.