Today, we'll talk about Father's Day. It's tomorrow 20/6/2010, by the way. Have you ever felt that Father's Day is less significant than Mother's Day? Actually I do, I often wonder why. One very obvious difference you can see is from the tele advertisements. I think a month before Mother's Day they already screening ads about mommie-love-relating shows and whatnot. Whereas now, I only found out Father's Day is tomorrow through some one's conversation. I have seen only one advertisement for dad on 8tv, where they promoted two shows for the weekend. How pathetic, and quite bias don't you think?
Well, I don't see any sales or promotions going on in the mall neither whereby promoting people to get gifts for fathers. Or I should say, rare, very rare. But I thought dad are the breadwinner in the family and is the Man. Most of the time, more capable and most look-up upon. Why society showed less attention to fathers nowadays? Just because they didn't bare babies in the first place doesn't mean they are no greater than a mom? I know my dad stands the most important role in my family. No one objects him. (if you know what I mean) Not even mom. =p
I think both of mom and dad are equally important in my life. Without either of them, I wont be where I am today. In conjuction to Father's Day, though I'm not at a time where I can afford good present for him, but at the very least I can always afford some good values of words as appreciation. Father and daughter always grew apart as time steps in. We are no exception. I've always seen him as a big man and he's very unapproachable. When I was at my rebellious age, things became worse. We had arguements, coldwars all the time. All these things are very inevitable. Those grudges soon turned in to scars. I remember I was very mad at him. As I grow, I matured in my thinking. I wanted a change on our relationship. But as a Chinese, we are very thin skin in terms of expressive themselves. We happened to fall into the norm also. Hence, we have not much of conversations. However, it's more than enough for me to just spend a time of dinner or just having some small talks.
All in all, I'm still very grateful to my daddy for all these years of patience and love. Despite being the troublemaker and demanding princess my whole life, yet his love never lessen. As I grow, he slowly become older, I wish I could do more to show him how much I care. I'm trying my best, and I hope you are too.
So Daddy, Happy Father's Day.
