Heartbreak
A death in the family can be traumatic, but when it is your own father, it is heartbreaking. It is an experience that will stay with one as long as one lives. Unfortunately, my experience of this was when I was ten- years-old. It is not easy to say goodbye to someone one loves, especially as a ten- year- old girl who thought she would see her father after two years. However these years did not go by quick enough as during that time something happened to him that would change my life forever. Even though the two years came and went, I never saw my father again. I learned the importance of being close to my family, because one never knows what will happen next. It was a Sunday afternoon in the middle of August, but there was something
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He was a great person and always spent his free time with his family. Family was most important to him. My father showed his love for my siblings and I in many different ways, ways I remember well. One of the ways he showed his love was by getting a tattoo of each of our initials around his arm. This tattoo made me feel special because it showed how much he loved his children because he out a permanent mark of us on his body. He was always there for me when I was young and he was willing to do almost anything for me. My father would take my siblings and I on family trips to Patagonia Lake and teach us how to fish. We would take family trips to the lake often, just to have fun and bond together as a family. He taught me everything I know about fishing, from learning how to cast the fishing line to taking the fish off the hook and scaling it. He would even let us sit on his lap and help him drive the boat. Sometimes we would have a blowup Jet Ski tied to the back of the boat and each of us got a chance to ride on the Jet Ski while our father drove the boat around the lake. This is one of the many ways my father bonded with me when I was a little