“Be happy and thankful for everything you have now, and just count all the blessings instead of complaining with the absence of the convenience you want. “ These are just some of the words uttered from the mouth of a man who have lanquored a deeper insight into my life. A rare man known for his being intellectual and resourceful in the field of driving and mechanics. With dealt to the above-mentioned incident happened almost four years behind, I therefore refrained on eating supper with nothing as a viand but those dreadful rock of salts and toasted coconut meats. I planned to sneak out from our house and went to my grandfather’s where I thought have something to eat that would please my appetite. But no, I unfortunately did not succeed because this man displeased me a lot and gave me some litany of the so-called lessons in life. And as anybody does during that age, I persisted in listening and in behalf, I did something that would change the direction of his thinking, hoping it would stop; but it did not. It seems to be a dynamic push towards righteousness between a father-son relationship. Wherein after a few minutes, a message of love and care has deeply hit the turmoiling heart of mine. I later found out that he was just doing his responsibility as a good and responsible father and that as a responsible one; he must le this son know that ”A father always thinks for the sake and goodness of his children.” A message that live in the midst of my heart until this point of time.
This man has not even changed a lot except on some few white hairs growing on his head as he turned 42 last 10th of September. He is still the Jack of my mother’s life (mother used to call him Jack, short cut for Jacinto). A Jack who was not so tall and stand 5 ft. 2 inches tall and stays fat. This man was often teased by his wife as a man with a Pasig river on his head due to the massive forehead forming a river on it. But even though he is just like that, he is a handsome guy able to win such 28 girlfriends during his bachelor years. Girls who were attracted to his outer as well as his inner beauty and radiance.
I sometimes dare to tease him with accord to his past girlfriends when some of them accidentally visited our home. But instead of getting mad, he is so weird that he managed to say that past is past. He was a man never won through teasing. A man with a strong determination in life as a good father, also as a great Christian. Wherein even though he was busy driving specially on Thursday and Sunday, he still managed to go to church every Sunday and prayed to God, no matter the circumstances was, rain or shine. He was a great man all I wished for a father.
This man is my father. A rare man and out of this world. Out of this world because nowadays this world is filled with evil and unpleasantness, wherein my father is an exception. A man with a heart full of mercy and love. The only father I have, and the only man I idolize beside Jesus and heavenly creatures. Yes, I know him so well for almost 16 years from now because he is my father – my great and out of this world father.
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