Happy Father's Day
Thanks Dad for all that you've done for me in the past year and beyond. Even as I grow older, I'm still always learning from you. I'm taking your ideas, lessons and values and merging them into my own experiences to better myself. I wouldn't be the person I am today without your guidance and I'm extremely glad to be able to be where I am.
My post-college life has been incredibly smooth due to your help with securing me a job that I've enjoyed for the past 10 months, your hospitality for allowing me to stay at home until I'm fully ready to embark on things on my own, and inspiration to make a name for myself. I always appreciate the tech conversations because they're great opportunities to compare notes about what tech is big in our respective jobs and even in our respective down times.
I really value the times where we talk about world and social issues, a lot of my mentalities about the way people behave and my interactions with their behaviors stems from what I gather from these conversations. Whether it's as serious as the Charleston shooting and the concepts of racism or as light hearted as the impact Denzel Washington has on mom and other black people, I'm grateful for both.
Getting through college was a massive accomplishment in my life, one that I am immensely proud of and one that would not be possible without your support, encouragement, understanding and patience. Through all of the mistakes I made, you never gave up on me, even when I wanted to give up on myself.
I know that he can speak for himself but I thank you for the way you've brought Caleb up as well. It's obvious that through raising me, you were able to raise him to be a great person that has accomplished so much even before the age of 18. He's my best friend and that's a testament to how you've kept us together.
Sometimes I think about how I probably don't say any of this enough, and I hope that it doesn't get to you because I always feel these things. Every day I can come home to the family, I feel these things. Every day that I achieve something through you, I feel these things.
So again, thank you Dad.
