Yesterday was Father’s Day, so this post is late. However, I still want to write something about it anyway.
This year’s Father’s Day has some firsts. My dad has been gone from us for five years now, but at the same time, we’re celebrating my brother and my two bros-in-law for being new fathers. 1 It was also the first time my mom and I did not hold a family gathering to celebrate it. My siblings wanted to celebrate on their own, family to family. It’s normal, and complete families should do that anyway.
As for me and Mom, we just stayed home and enjoyed an extra free Sunday. Sundays for us is family gathering day, where we meet the fam and the babies. Honestly for Mom and me, it was always the babies. Originally, we were going to visit Dad at the memorial park, but then we realized that it was going to be really packed over there. Some families and visitors would even hold picnics around their departed loved ones. Plus, the parking sucks over when there’s way too many people.
Earlier today on a beautiful Monday morning, we visited Dad. We shared our prayers, shared some news, 2 and observing the fancy-designed neighboring markers and the newcomers to the neighborhood. We noticed one marker that was almost rusted copper got replaced with a fresh and brand-new marker because the spouse recently passed away and has joined the first occupier of that marker. We went grocery shopping after that and then went home.
I wanted to write something for the sake of adding some fresh (?) content in this site. Other than what I wrote so far, there was not much to write about. I’m still busy with work, still self-paced studying UX Design online, still finding some time to draw something on my iPad without feeling exhausted. However, work wasn’t helping. I knew what I wanted to do when I get home from work, but by the time I arrive home, I felt the exhaustion befalling upon me.
For those who no longer have their fathers living with them — do you still celebrate Father’s Day? This is a question to those whose fathers already passed. I don’t count the dishonorable and the deadbeat here.
But for those who still have their fathers, please cherish them and the times you have with them. If you live far away from your dads, give them a call. Maybe a text message if they use smartphones. Or send an email if they like sending emails. It doesn’t have to be on Father’s Day or on their birthdays. Make everyday your Father’s Day.
I still got some ideas on how to make this site grow or the type of content that I would like to include here. IF only summer isn’t such a busy period for work.
Till next time.
Yeah I wouldn’t be so keen to go visit your dad when it would of been packed. I think it’s nice you visited him even if it was on another day.
I feel ya with having stuff you want to do but being too tired. I mean to do stuff after work but I’m usually too tired depending on the day.
I end up playing video games (Animal Crossing LOL) once I lie down on my bed after work instead. The vTubers that I normally watch are on streaming break, so this should be a good time to do the things that I intend to do in the first place but never get to because of post-work exhaustion. Like, I want to do some art, or catch up with my UX Designer online course, and other choers such as cleaning my room and throwing out the old clutter away to keep my room clean.
The exhaustion also made me realize that, even though I look younger than my age on the outside, on the inside I’m not that young anymore LOL. As my dad always said before, “That’s life.”