The World's Greatest

Someone once said, ~ A father is someone that holds your hand at the fair, makes sure you do what your mother says, holds back your hair when you are sick, brushes that hair when it is tangled because mother is too busy, lets you eat ice cream for breakfast, but only when mother is away, he walks you down the aisle, and tells you everything's gonna be ok.~ Its true indeed that fathers tend to take the proverbial back seat to moms in the so called parent totem pole. Yet, even though its mothers who give the tender loving care and tend to get much of the attention, its the fathers who can be be given credit where credit is due when one calls for some much needed, as well as, best advice possible.

As little kids, we've all had those petty arguments on whose dad was better and it eventually turned into amy dad can beat up your dad scenerio, which my dad can beat up all you dads...just kidding or am I? In any case, its that superhero mentality we placed on him due to the fact that in our young adolescent eyes he was an invincible man like Superman. Though we never saw him leap tall buildings in a single bound or used heat vision that came from his eyes, one practically looked up to him as a role model to one day grow up to be as. Yet, as we got older one started to figure out that he wasn't a superhero, just a regular man; but a man that each and every one of us hopefully still love and respect nonetheless.

A father expects so much from the oldest son, like myself, who is to one day take care of the family if in case something unfortunate ever happens to him, which hopefully doesn't occur any time soon. *knock on wood* Its a father's obligation to push and mold a son/sons, whether he's the youngest or oldest, to be the man that he can be pround of. A son that he can with his own eyes that he has grown up into a fine upstanding man who still has the values and manners engrained into one's own being. At times, a father will be disappointed and frustrated with a son; but that is to be expected because of course, he too disappointed and frustrated hin own father many years ago.

When it comes to a daughter or daughters, a father will absolutely feel overprotective. Can you blame him because he knows that there are young men out there who are just waiting to date his precious little jewel(s). Its at that point, a father will go into a mode where potential young suitors will have the fear of God into them somewhat like in the movie Bad Boys II; but with not such much of the humoristic side used because he knows what they are thinking. Working in the insane asylum, I honestly feel protective of "my girls" not only as a big brother but also as a father due to the fact that I've seen each of them grow up from little girls to not yet a woman. Essentially, a father will always and forever be seen as daddy's little girl(s) even if she is married and all grown up with her own kids.

In retrospect, there are several different names that a child can call a father such dad, pop, papi, tatay, old man etc. If you have a father or at least a father figure in your life tell him that you love him and thank him for all that he has done for you. For if that relationship has been severed years ago, then at least make the effort to try talk to set things right that were once wronged in the past. Through all the disappoints and mistakes that a father will see, hear and experience from his child, he will always still love you no matter what. Even though he may not be in your life physically he's always in your heart or if you don't want him to be in your life personally, he will always be your father. Ultimately, it takes a certain kind of man to be a father that will always be there for his family and in the end, that man will truly deserve to be called The World's Greatest. Happy Father's Day Folks!