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My Outshining Star
Protective to the core,
Unlimited knowledge in store,
In every stride of his there lies confidence,
With him along the unreachable seems reachable.
Pragmatically sound,
Emotionally mysterious,
He’s the first to exploit my little weaknesses,
With him at my side I can strengthen all my weaknesses.
Perfectionist he is,
And expects it from me,
Disappointment though is all what he reveals,
With him along most unattainable is successfully attained.
Star he is,
Outshining all,
Bragging about him makes my mates gape in awe
With him along I feel proud to be a daughter of a star,
Who someday shall be shining at par.
I always felt I was my mom’s little star but always aspired to meet the benchmarks set by my star. My very first challenges sprung from the very presence of my dad. Where my mom made sure I had all the required vitamins popped into my little tummy through endless endeavours of cooking food of my choice, my dad could make me eat the yuckiest grossest things on the basis of a mere bet on a wrestling match. Where my mom made me feel really smart on a mere pronunciation of a three letter word my dad made me feel brainless by simply raising the bar via citing one of the neighbour’s daughter’s friend’s sister’s stupefying episodes. Where my mom taught me 101 ways of being a good human my dad practically taught me a million ways to cheat over a game of cards. Where my mom nurtured me with care, my dad plunged me straight into the pool to teach me how to swim and woke me up on Sundays to accompany him in scrubbing his car.
The funny bit is that this authoritative, stern, taunting man has a zillion weaknesses that he never accepts. Sometimes I wonder why my mum married a man with so much attitude and at other times I wonder why I chose him to be my star.
My dad’s my star because maybe his being an enigma is what I love most about him; it gives me an aspiration to pray for the commencement of another day so as to decipher the enigmatic codes of life.
This Father’s Day is very special to me, as this Mother’s Day my dad revealed a different side of him. I asked him for a loan to present my dear mom a tribute for her love that she has showered all along. Surprisingly, he did not state his preferred claims about how difficult it is to earn Ms Money (who tends to have the power to make the world dance on her fingertips) at that point in time he had a different statement to make. He complained that never did I present him with a Father’s Day gift…I was dumbfounded. I just discovered that the world’s most smart dude actually cared for a gift bought out of his own money.
How, when and where?
Father’s Day was promoted by a daughter who thought that her father and all good fathers around the world should be honoured with a special day. Sonora Smart Dodd of Spokane, Washington thought of the idea for Father’s Day while listening to a Mother’s Day sermon in 1909.
Sonora’s father, William Jackson Smart was a widower. It was her father that made all the parental sacrifices and was, in the eyes of his daughter, a courageous, selfless, and loving man. She wanted her father to know how special he was to her. Sonora’s father was born in June, so she chose to hold the first Father’s Day celebration in Spokane, Washington on June 19, 1910.
In 1926, a National Father’s Day Committee was formed in New York. Father’s Day was recognised by a Joint Resolution of Congress in 1956. In 1972, President Richard Nixon established a national observance of Father’s Day to be held on the third Sunday of June.
The star treatment
Unlike Mother’s Day, this day comes up in the midst of vacation time. The time that you can actually spend with your dad is either during vacations or on Sundays. Luckily both of them are coming up simultaneously so surely it’s time to have a blast.
Here’s how you could give your dad a star treatment.
a.. Plan a vacation to a nice resort
b.. Spend a day with friends and family at the beach
c.. Gift your dad something unique .
Handmade calendar: Design a small handmade calendar for your dad’s office desk. Creativity is not much required; all you need to do is buy a cardboard, cut it into 12 pieces and get ring binding done. Next, select a couple of family pictures and stick them onto the side of the cardboard and copy down the information required from any calendar.
Paint a T-shirt: Buy your dad a plain T-shirt and write a one-liner like ‘Love you dad’ by using fabric paints and gift it to him.
Handmade card: Make a card and decorate it by writing your dad’s most used statements like ‘Wait till you get home’, ‘my father used to tell me…’, ‘go ask your mom’, ‘you are so unorganised’, etc.
Pen holder: Paste a family photo on a pen holder and gift it to your dad.
Cooking: Cook your dad his favourite food
Share your star
The best means of commemorating your dad is nothing else but sharing your star with several unlucky ones who have lost their stars or have never seen them in person. Spend a day with your dad amongst a couple of those who tend to live their lives without a dad, give them a feel of how special your star is and how outshining he is, so much so that he can bring light in their dear lives by merely spending a day with them.
If nothing else is possible then just drop in a huge early morning kiss on his tanned cheeks with a LOVE YOU DAD remark. You could rather try your luck by asking him to get something that you want so as to make the most of this special day and be the special star that he shall remain to be.
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