Happy Father's Day!

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A lot of times, I feel that dads are overshadowed by moms.  Most of the times, many media focus or emphasizes on a mom's gratitude and her sacrifices for her children and her family.  There definitely got countless highlights of media on a dad's gratitude as well.  But I bet that the ones for moms surpass the ones for dads.

One of the reasons might be that a mom has to bear more hardship for her children starting from the point of pregnancy where a dad doesn't have to.  Furthermore, women are meant to take care of her family whereas men are meant to support his family.  That was especially true during old days where a mom's role is to take care and keep well of her children and husband and the house whereby a dad works to make money to support the family.  However, I have to say though that this definitely is fading away nowadays even though some cultures are still practicing this.

Even a man and a woman are to put equally, a woman's nature still makes her to take well care of her brood whereas a man's nature makes him not a very good caretaker compared to a mom.  When it comes to taking care of her kids, a mom simply couldn't help.  Even the female animals solidly proves for it. 

Whereas most of the men do not like to take those hassles of taking care of their kids.  They just naturally do not seem to fit well for doing that.  The responsibilities they got to bear for their families make them emphasize more on the financial outlook to meet the needs of food, clothing and accommodation of families.  And they leave the rest responsibilities to their female counterparts who naturally seem to fit more for the roles.  Well, a lot of dads these days share the half of those responsibilities of their kids but still moms naturally are willing to sacrifice and take care more for kids.  Then, a lot of times kids are closer to their moms than dads because they simply spend more time with moms than dads.  And that probably gets us to the point where dads are usually overshadowed by moms.

However, just because a dad doesn't or couldn't spend as much as time a mom does, it doesn't mean that a dad doesn't love his kids as much as a mom does.  Some of the things are hard to judge superficially.  I'm speaking it out of my experiences.

There got two dads I've known of both of whom are the most important men of my life.  They sure do have very different personalities.  Papa being an average dad who appears to be the one who doesn't really care much to us: my brother and me.  It was until I've come to know of the other side of him later.  It was when I learnt that some of the things are impossible to judge by one side of the coin.  Most of the cases, it's necessary to flip the coin to see the other side of it to get a complete picture.

He being one of the best dads I've ever known of.  He proves me wrong that all of those statements I've mentioned about an average dad in earlier paragraphs.  He's one of those rare men who is willing to devote and spend all his time and does whatever it needs to the girls.  A lot of the times I can't beat his patience to girls.  He's more than willing to sacrifice his career for his family.  He always picks the family over his job or his personal preference whenever it comes a choice for him.  What's an incredible and rare dad I've known of! It's beyond words to describe how great dad he is.  He deserves more than enough for being entitled of "one of the best dads". 

They say "Any man can be a father but it takes a special man to be a dad". 
To me, "A dad is one who doesn't say his love by words but who rather  prove his love by gestures and what he does for his kids".  Both of him and Papa best explained it.  They don't brag aloud by saying it but they rather prove it silently by doing it.  Actions are louder than words, aren't they?

Those two great dads in my life might have very different personalities but they meet at that one point: "having a special quality of being a dad". Happy Father's Day to those two great men of my life and all Dads!