Sunday, August 25, 2024
You would be 75 tomorrow, Dad. I wish you could have been here to celebrate this milestone...you've missed too much. You were taken too young, and I'm now closer to your age when I last saw your physical person than I am to the age I was when you were taken from me. I miss you more than words can express, and I love you to the power of infinity. I'm happy that your investment in me has finally paid off, it just took me a little longer than you had planned, the thing about plans we make for our kids; they don't always align with the ones we make as kids. Despite many challenges, most health related; I've made it to a very successful career, the last year has been particularly tough, but I'm still working away and you'd be very proud, of that I have not a single doubt. I love you, I miss you and I wish you could be here to meet your granddaughter, and see your youngest child reach the highest heights of her career. I feel like you earned it, you are the one who always invested in me, believed in me and pushed me to do my best with anything and everything I did. I understand now, and thank you for teaching me. I hope you're out there somewhere watching me "play the game" better and harder than anyone who ever had it handed to them. Love you, Dad. Wish you'd lived a few decades longer. Life isn't fair.
