Father's Day - A Gift to my Dad! Read till end..if you love your dad!

My Dad, my loving dad, whom I am missing very much today as he's out of town due to some work. When I think of him, I see him standing silently far away and just smiling.. He's been smiling throughout his life, irrespective of the struggles that he's been through.

Whenever I saw other dads spending time with their daughters, I felt my heart aching as I missed all that fun and those precious moments. I had been away from him most of the time because of his work and also because he was always busy making ways for our happiness and specially mine. Unlike other dads, I had and still have very unusual relation with him. He never shouts on me for any wrong decisions I take, he never sits with me and shares his experiences with me, which I would have loved to hear.. Yes, all this sounds very negative on his part.. But let me tell you that this is NOT the reality..

- He never spent so much of time with me: because he was ensuring to put his best efforts to make me and entire family happy, to fight when we were struggling with various lows of life.
- He never shared his experiences with me: because he was always so confident of me and wanted me to grow up as an independent child who can take good decisions on her own. His immense trust in me has made me what I am today.
- He never went out with me: because he wanted to give me my own time that I missed all throughout my childhood..
- He never asked me why I was coming late or why was I making certain unusual decisions related to my career and life: because he always saw me as a 'pillar' of the family, a 'support system' and considered me more mature.

Isn't this enough for me to be thankful to God for this blessing of such a loving Dad.. True that he was unlike other dads, but had he not been so, would I have been able to love myself the way I have been able to do now? Would I have been able to take mature and independent decisions? Would I have been so happy ever? Would I have been able to survive ever in those turbulences that came in my life without his immense trust and silent love for me?

Now let me ask, don't we all get all this from our loving parents? Most of us will answer "yes" to this question? But it's the people among us only, who kick them away out of our lives when they grow old. It's we, who consider them the burdens once we have our own 'happy' families.. Ever wondered, if that 'happy' family would have been so happy without the support and unconditional love of our parents?

Lets dedicate this day to our Fathers, loving dads and each day to our loving parents, this is where our true happiness lies..

-Preet