Does anyone have a father who actually did a good job at parenting? That sounds like a myth.
Whenever I
see a post like this I feel kinda sad but do realize how truly lucky I am.
I remember
that time I accidentally overheard my dad talking with one of his friends, in a
random conversation, and him saying ‘blablabla,
but hey if she [about me] gets a boyfriend or a girlfriend’ even though I
have never brought up sexuality in my life; my dad didn’t assume that I was
straight.
I remember
that time when I was forced to go on a school trip when I was younger (actually
a trip to another country which was a first for me, when surrounded by fellow
students that I didn’t get along with all that much) and I got anxiety and home
sickness after two days, I called home, and my dad picked up, and he was like ‘okay princess, I got homesick too when I
was younger, I’ll come pick you up’. And I remember laughing through my
tears because haha, that was sweet of him to say, but that would be a 24 hour
drive actually so it was supposedly a joke. Either way I did feel well enough to
at least make it through the rest of that day and the night, but then I woke up
to this text like ‘I’m nearly here, did
you pack your stuff yet? Also I’m kinda lost in this city but I don’t know how
to speak Czech and no one here speaks English, do you speak Czech?!’ (Which
I really don’t.)Eventually he found
a taxi driver and paid the guy to drive ahead of him to get to the address of
the hotel where I was staying.
I remember
a recent migraine attack and me going like ‘dad,
I’m okay enough to go to work now but my vision is still kinda blurry, so could
you drive me, because me driving wouldn’t be the safest plan right now’. And
him furiously declaring ‘NO, I’m not
driving you anywhere, what you’re going to do for the rest of the day is
getting some rest.’
I remember
that one time when I was on my period and in the worst mood ever and my dad
getting home from work and handing me my
favorite chocolate, saying ‘I think you
might need this’.
And I think
everyone deserves that, and it’s so unfair that not everyone gets to have it.
