Sunday, June 17, 2012

Happy Father's Day, Mom!

Once again Father's Day is upon us, giving me a moment to reflect. Growing up, I didn't have a father. Well, not in the traditional sense anyway. My mother, to the best of her ability, did double duty, holding it down as best she could. I love my mother dearly, but the truth of the matter is it would have been nice to have a positive, strong and intelligent male figure in my life. Someone who I felt comfortable opening up to about stuff that I don't think my mother would have understood, no matter how hard she tried.

I have often wondered what would have happened if my father had been a part of my life. It would have been different, no doubt. How different is a question I don't have the answer to and now believe it or not, do not want the answer to. I can't deny that a boy needs his father or that a girl needs her mother, as long as they are serious about parenting. However, considering my father wasn't around and made no attempts to be, and that my mother, like all single mothers, made the choice to be what I needed her to be then I have no choice but to say Happy Father's Day, Mom!