Thinking about my father

My father was the most unexpected man I have ever seen. I mostly inherited from him this very peculiar side of his personality, and I'm kind of proud of it.

He wasn't a conventional man indeed. I remember sometimes he used to wake up at the weekends, read his newspaper - the cultural section was always given to me! - having his breakfast, and after wondering I don't know what he suddenly announced : Everybody jump into the car now! We all go to the beach and you guys can invite whoever you want to bring! I remember my father having this beautiful heart when I was a very little child, and all my friends loved him. What not to love? He was kind, funny, and most importantly but not less admirable, my father was the ultimate smart man I have ever seen. Then I used to be very happy . I used to be happier than my sister, who was always bored on something we never know what was that about - maybe it was only her personal style to be bored! We jumped into the car, my sister always had a friend to bring and I preferred to ask daddy to pass by his sisters house and to pick up my cousins I loved - Fatima and Dulce.

We used to go to a beach very far from home, and that's why I loved all that thing. Today I reckon it was the distance between my house and the beach that used to fascinate me! The entire trip used to be an adventure.

I remember when I was 9, and I started studying how to transform meters per second into kilometers per hours, how happy I used to go to the beach with my father - he always used to put me by his left side- and I was counting the kilometers and making calculus, and daddy used to be very impressed with me- and of course, my sister always bored!

...Today I feel I am the luckiest man on earth! Although I had several problems with my father during the years that ran my disturbing adolescence , the images from my childhood are stronger than all the troubles we had.

 Actually I feel as older I became, the bad experiences are fading and the good ones are bumping out every once in a while. My father was the most amazing man I have ever seen!

He is so far a good example of man to be followed. I wish I had half of his courage, and only 1% of his smartness! I miss my daddy very, very much...I miss that amazing man I used to call father!

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