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What is significant about Father's Day to you?

How did your father impact your life?
DarkHeaven · Best Comment
Here’s a story to explain my love and what he means to me. He’s everything.

My Dad is a very hard man. He was born and spent his whole childhood in Iceland. He came to the US as a teenager with my grandparents and worked his ass off to become a cattle rancher. He is without a doubt the toughest and hardest man that I’ve ever known my entire life. He is also kind and compassionate but he is never weak and suffers no fools. I’ve always been his princess but princesses have to be smart and tough as nails as well in his book. Probably the only reason I survived my hell is based on what he taught. Don’t remember the exact details but one summer when I was an arrogant teenager, I was helping my dad and he noticed a break in our fence. Somebody on the dirt road must have clipped it with their car. We hadn’t had any cattle wander out but it needed a temporary fix to keep them in until we could fully repair the fence. I told my dad I’d fix it with some bailing wire and he asked if I needed help and I said no because I wanted to prove to him that I can do anything my brothers can. It had been hard to see from the road but when I walked over the break was worse than I had thought. Some of the fence that was still up was bad and the section too long for any bailing wire to work at all. I tried to bail it up the best I could but I knew it wouldn’t hold them if they pushed up against it but I was way too embarrassed to tell him that it was a bigger job than I could handle. My Dad thought he had at least a few hours to fix it. About an hour later we had about a dozen head break through my shit job. After we got the cattle back he went over and saw that I had to have known that the posts were pulled up and I’d be a dumbass to think it would hold. He wanted me to apologize for not asking for help when I knew better. My stubborn pride felt that would be weak. He said any child of his too stupid or too arrogant to apologize when they are wrong and know it, could walk the fuck back to the house. It was a long way back home. It was getting evening by the time I got home but I learned a whole lot during my long walk that evening.

1.) I learned my Dad don’t fuck around.
2.) That I’m strong enough to hold to my convictions even when I’m dead wrong.
3.) I learned my Dad won’t expect me to apologize unless I’m actually wrong because he wouldn’t.
4.) Most importantly that arrogance is not strength, even it feels like it, it’s stupidity & weakness of mind.

I’ve watched my Dad apologize since. Not very often because he’s rarely wrong but all the more moving when he does because it’s very fucking real.
@AnonymouslyYours He’s very special and I love him a lot. 🖤
@DarkHeaven Thanks for sharing that, it was beautiful.

Indy74 · 46-50, F
To honor a wonderful man who has guided me through life. I was a daddy's girl when I was growing up.
Synyster · 51-55, M
My dad was my hero. RIP dad.
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Synyster · 51-55, M
@KellyLancaster Thank you. 🤗
SW-User
Nothing. I never really had a father. 😑
@SW-User Same. I never knew mine.
helenS · 36-40, F
"How did your father impact your life?
— Not much really, I have to say. My late father was a salesman, he was out of town very often, and I am very much my mother's child.
Miram · 31-35, F
He taught me how effed up parents can be 🤷‍♀️

Grandfathers and @kingkyri are better father figures. I rather appreciate the good men and focus on that ^^

Good men that know when to fight and when to make peace. They know how keep their aggression under control and channel it for a good cause. And channel love for a good cause too.

They are kind, brave, honest, compassionate, gentle..They don't dictate how you should live your life but they live and let you watch them doing it, let you grow with them and even outgrow their achievements. They want you to be safe, to succeed, to love yourself, to be happy..They are there for you when everything falls apart.

You don't have to be a father to give the world fatherly love.
@Miram
“A Warrior knows that the ends do not justify the means. Because there are no ends, there are only means...”
— Paulo Coelho (Warrior of the Light)
He’s my hero. Period. I’m a lot like him and he taught me everything about being strong and how to persevere.
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@KellyLancaster Thank you. ☮️
Well. I’m 41 years old, employed full time and never been to jail.. I think he did an ok job 👌
Phire1 · 51-55, F
My dad was the best person in my life ever since the day I was born. He was disabled in more than one way his entire life. He tried so hard to raise me 'right' and he tried to do so upon his grandkids as well. My younger son's dad's side of the family have NO CLUE about that! They don't even care to know.

I cherished every moment with my dad and so did my sons. We miss my dad ever so much!
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Keepitsimple · 51-55, F
Not quite sure. It should be for the wonderful fathers who are good to their kids but for me it doesn’t represent anything personally as my father was an every other weekend father who beat me. My kids are lucky to have their father.
SteelHands · 61-69, M
Can't say. He was a monolith I couldn't figure out. Tell ya a couple things tho.

He trusted me to climb hills I'd be climbing all my life before anyone else would have.

He was the only sonofabitch that could have made my mom not ruin me. Either by her jealously of never having been a man or turn me into a twat by coddling like she did her last born son.

He and mom stayed married till death but he said bury me face down so mom can come and kiss my ass. Right in front of her. Then she'd say yeah but for now keep teaching me.

I don't even know but it's fun to talk about to the "normal ones"

Lol
A reminder of what i've lost and what i've gained.
He gave me a childhood i've had to recover from.
During all of that I found the love of my life, who gave me my children.
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https://similarworlds.com/14-Music/2536924-Wow-I-didnt-even-know-my-dad-had-CDs-of-some-of
midnightsun · 26-30, M
By always being a role model in my life

I mean the kind of role model on what exact not to do in life
He got my mom pregnant
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Time.

The time I remember as a child, a teenager and a grown woman.

So many memories with my Dad during those times.

And now time is more precious than ever because her has dementia and I know I have to make the minutes...hours count.

I love you Dad ♥️
Diesel95 · 36-40, MVIP
All thsat needs to be said about my pops is right here https://similarworlds.com/8076178-I-Love-My-Dad/241126-Hey-guys-just-thought-I-would-write-about-the-grea
Having the father I did...I learned to love nature
I decided a man will never be the boss of me
and not to trust people
Some invaluable lessons.@RooiSoosSkarlakenWitSoosSneeu
booboo · M
in so many ways, and not all were good, but they were turned into something good for my children..
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Not much and not much. I mostly remember him drunk...

 
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