Letter to A Dad

I found this letter in a magazine and it is very touching.  I think it’s worth sharing here.  Here’s what it says –

My Dear Daddy,

I do not exactly know what to write on this blank piece of paper.  I know you have ths ame awkwrd feeling that I have now.  Calling somebody “daddy” is foreign to me, how much more writing to one?  All my life I have been wondering how it feels to have a father.  Haven’t you thought how proud you would have been if you were thre to welcome me into this world?  Why did you leave so soon?  Neither Mom could explain.

Mom did a good job in raising me up.  I could have been a rebel or a drop-out in school.  I could have been.  But i was not.  I finished highschool with flying colors.  Mama is a good mother.  She’s a tough chick.  Makes me wanna ask why you left her.  On second thought, may you were not really meant for each other.  But please, don’t ever think taht my coming out of this world was a mistake.  I was a joy to my mom, my grandparents, and to the people who sorrounded me with love.

I have been yearning of how it feels to belong a to a “real” family, how it feels to go to Jollibee with my daddy and mommy after my kindergarteen graduation, and how it feels to be loved by a father.

I’m not so like the other 17-year-olds.  I don’t have a father waiting for me impatiently at home whenever I go home late.  I have a Loius Vuitton wallet (of course fake), but i don’t have any family picture in it.  My classmates envy me for making it to the dean’s list for two consecutive semesters, but I envy them.  They have fathers to cheer them up when they nearly flunked our Human Anatomy class.  I needed a dad to share my happiness with.

Did i ever hate you?  There were lots of times that i was tempted to.  I know you think that I do.  But I don’t, I never did.  In my heart, I have already forgiven you.  Mom taught me taht.

Sometimes before i lseep, I wonder…Does Daddy also think what it would be like when we see each other?  Do you ever think of such things dad?  Every night when I saymy prayers, I pause for several seconds.  You know why? I made a deal with God.  Every time I do this, God understands that these silent moments are meant to ask Him to bless you.

Whatever it was between youand Mom I hope time already mended.  I don’t intent to pull you away from your family because I know how it feels to grow up without a father.

I cannot be complete without you.  Until the day that our paths will cross, I will wait.  And wait. And wait.

I admire the girl who wrote this letter. I love her honesty in writing a letter to an unseen dad.  I can relate in some way not because I don’t have a father but i can relate for my daughter.  maybe one day, my daughter can pen up a letter similar to this. But still it is my hope that they gonna meet up and talk before any letter like this can be composed.