A Tribute To Fathers
Simon and Garfunkel, separately known as Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel has a song - El Condor Pasa which went "I rather be a sparrow than a snail. Yes I would, if I could. I surely would." Here it is, enjoy:
For you to sing along:
In fact, don't we rather be mothers than fathers since mothers are that great? No, don't think we could. Are you able to go through child-birth? If so, you would be every woman's dream come true.
The first of the Ten Commandments stated very clearly: "Honour your father and mother". Not only that, it comes with a promise: that is if you honour your father and mother, "you will live a long life, full of blessing."
Very few of us know it but fathers are a great source of inspiration and strength to their children and family. All innocent children look up to their dads with reverence as they seem strong and knowledgeable. A young female child will first fall in love with their dads that is why there are some reports that suggested that ladies like to choose their husbands like their fathers. Young sons look up to their dads in awe for they are the ones who help retrieved their kites and keep the imaginary monsters away. The father is therefore, a symbol of strength and one who always provide for the family, shelter them and protect them from any harm. Many of us would try to emulate dad too. I know there are some fathers who are like the lion king, who laze around while the female lions and the pride hunt for food for them. If you are that kind of useless father, then you are an animal, no more than the real lion in the plains. You just have the mane while others do not. That's about it.
It is also stated that fathers should not make their children angry by the way you provoke and treat them. You should rather bring them up with discipline and instruction and the love for our children ought to be unconditional and not depending on who they become, who they are and how they score in school or later in than career. Life, however, is not always the same for all people. Some children who are fortunate enough to have an accommodating and loving father should consider themselves blessed as their dads are there to take care of all their needs but many children would also not understand why their fathers are adamant to stop them if they are found deviating onto a wrong path in life.
What about the children from dysfunctional families or those who were orphaned? Fathers being guys tend to feel like macho and do not always express themselves often about their hardships in life so as to provide you the children a better life. Let me share with you a quote: "By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.- Charles Wadsworth 1814-1882".
Quotes
Men in general desire the good and not merely what their fathers had. - Aristotle 384-322 BC from Politics.
Life was a lot simpler when what we honoured was father and mother rather than all major credit cards. - Robert Orben 1927.
My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. - Clarence B. Kelland 1881-1964.
Until you have a son of your own . . . you will never know the joy, the love beyond feeling that resonates in the heart of a father as he looks upon his son. You will never know the sense of honour that makes a man want to be more than he is and to pass something good and hopeful into the hands of his son. And you will never know the heartbreak of the fathers who are haunted by the personal demons that keep them from being the men they want their sons to be. - Kent Nerburn 1917- from Letters to My Son.
The most important thing that a father can do for his children is to love their mother. - Theodore M. Hesburgh 1917- from Reader's Digest.
All fathers are invisible in daytime; daytime is ruled by mothers and fathers come out at night. Darkness brings home fathers, with their real, unspeakable power. There is more to fathers than meets the eye. - Margaret Atwood 1939- from Cat's Eyes.
I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection. - Sigmund Freud from Civilization and Its Discontents.
Noble fathers have noble children. - Euripides.
It is a wise child that knows its own father, and an unusual one that unreservedly approves of him. - Mark Twain.
Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children. - William Penn.
My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me. - Jim Valvano.
"A wise son maketh a glad father."- 10:1.
"A truly great man never puts away the simplicity of a child."- Confucius.
We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so. - Alexander Pope.
"A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again." - Enid Bagnold.
"For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers." - Homer.
When I was a kid, I used to imagine animals running under my bed. I told my dad, and he solved the problem quickly. He cut the legs off the bed. - Lou Brock.
On Father's Day or Mother's Day it is a good opportunity for children to apologise to their parents for their misdemeanour, for being rude or insensitive or for taking their parents for granted or for treating them with contempt. In some religions and culture, it is common for children to show respects in this manner where all is then forgiven and this is done on New Year's day and the family can come back together as one.
Show your gratitude to your old man with love and support as they have love and supported you since you were very young. However, this becomes meaningless if done only on Father's Day as these things should be done everyday.
Role ModelParents especially fathers are role models for the children. We can tell our children how to behave and what to do but at the end of the day, our children will really only do what we do.
I leave you a beautiful song about Papa.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZ6LwbmlZ-E
"One hundred years from now, it will not matter what my bank account was, how big my house was, or what kind of car I drove. But the world may be a little better, because I was important in the life of a child." -Forest Witcraft
Happy Father's Day! I think I like the word Papa better. Happy Papa's Day!!"One hundred years from now, it will not matter what my bank account was, how big my house was, or what kind of car I drove. But the world may be a little better, because I was important in the life of a child." -Forest Witcraft
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