The Father’s Day is just around the corner. With the hype from the commercial side, the Mother’s Day has been far too weighted in the sense that everything is replaceable with gifts and stuff like that. Few of my friends from blog did came up with some posts to share about their mothers’ and mothers’ day alike.
Just over the last week, few of us met up to tok kok and sing song at the Leisure Mall. We were discussing about the commercialized world of Mother’s Day and then the coming Father’s Day. Not sure where I read the entry about the father, I begin to search high and low for it. After endless hours at the googling and with no idea what the thing is, I manage to find it under the context of poem. It was by Ann Landers.
My Father
When I was: Four years old: My daddy can do anything.
When I was: Five years old: My daddy knows a whole lot.
When I was: Six years old: My dad is smarter than your dad.
When I was: Eight years old: My dad doesn’t know exactly everything.
When I was: 10 years old: In the olden days, when my dad grew up, things were sure different.
When I was: 12 years old: Oh, well, naturally, Dad doesn’t know anything about that. He is too old to remember his childhood.
When I was: 14 years old: Don’t pay any attention to my dad. He is so old-fashioned.
When I was: 21 years old: Him? My Lord, he’s hopelessly out of date.
When I was: 25 years old: Dad knows about it, but then he should, because he has been around so long.
When I was: 30 years old: Maybe we should ask Dad what he thinks. After all, he’s had a lot of experience.
When I was: 35 years old: I’m not doing a single thing until I talk to Dad.
When I was: 40 years old: I wonder how Dad would have handled it. He was so wise.
When I was: 50 years old: I’d give anything if Dad were here now so I could talk this over with him. Too bad I didn’t appreciate how smart he was. I could have learned a lot from him.
By: Ann Landers
Just by going through this poem again once stirred my emo-ness. I do miss talking to him.
On this day..
- World Most Polluted River? - 2007
- Anti-Phone iPhone - 2007
- Cybercafes in Genting Klang - Update - 2006
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