Goodbye Father

 

Goodbye Father

Well father here I am a lost child once again with no direction. Now, I do not have you to show me the way, or to help me along. What will I do? I wasted so much time not listening. I regret the times that I was a problem, you did not deserve any of that. I could have been a better son. In the end, I owed you much more than I could repay. I had to do the things the way I did them. If I were as smart as I think I am, I would have listened to you once in a while. These are my regrets and they are not in dispute.

 I would like to thank you for the things that you have given me over the years. I would like to thank you for the mental toughness to live life. For the driving vocation, and appreciation of all things cars and trucks. I would like to thank you for teaching me to think for myself, and to make my own decisions right or wrong. I would like to thank you for the wisdom concerning finances, and the honesty that goes with it. I would like to thank you for the compassion for the less fortunate in this world. I would like to thank you for the work ethic, and the self-reliance that you lived by example. Do as I say, and as I do. 

I would like to thank you for standing by me in the hard times of my life, when you should have given up on me. I would have given up on me, that is why you were a better man than I. I would like to thank you for sacrifice of years at the end, to take care of me in the beginning. You paid the cost, so the least I can do is be a better man than I have been. So that your sacrifice will not have been in vain. 

I would like to thank you for being the man that you were. You and I are the same and we are different, I would like to thank you for that, and finally, I would like to thank you for loving my mother, my sister, my nephew and me unconditionally. I love you father. No more hands in your pockets, no more pain. Please rest in peace, the lord knows you deserve it. Goodbye Father.