Today would had been my father's 72nd birthday if he were still around...I intended to visit his grave last weekend but the weather did not cooperate..... Tonight, our family will have dinner to commemorate the birth of a wonderful, evermissed father ....
Two Sundays from now, the whole world will celebrate Father's day. It is sad that mine is already gone...
Last Saturday, I visited a store where I enjoyed looking at the displayed suggested gift items for Father's day. I bought a pin which says "World's Greatest Father" How I long to be able to give it to my father.... I decided to just attach the pin to his hat. However, I found out that his hat is now being used by my second brother... Maybe, wearing father's hat means a lot to him. Maybe he feels less lonely when he puts it on...maybe more than the protection that the hat brings it also gives my brother some 'strength'.....
More than anything else, I personally believe that when a son wears his dad's hat----he is showing respect to the person. This gesture shows that the son cherishes even the smallest thing the father had left behind...hat being one tangible connection between them....
It is like giving a salute....for recognizing the job well done...if this is so..then ...all your children would love to wear your old hat, Tatay as much as we want to take it off for you as well for a kind of father you had been to us...Hats off....
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