More men should be Dads

Jun 17, 2012 News

By Rehana Ashley Ahamad

Instead of honouring our fathers, we should honour our Dads. I have always believed that one Dad is more than 100 fathers.
A father and a dad are not the same. One can be a dad and not a father. Or one can be a father and not bother, but it takes a dad, a daddy, to lift you when you have fallen, or to know what is in your heart before you could tell him.
It is not flesh and blood, but the heart which turns a father into a dad.
Maybe we are in a world today where there are too many fathers, but fewer dads. Thankfully for me, I not only have a Dad, but I also work among many.
A Dad is someone we can look up to no matter how tall we’ve grown. Always correcting and forgiving our every mistake.
Our daddy’s hand is the one on our shoulders, steering us in the right path, and backing us all the way.
They are the ones in our lives with nothing but motivational words to say.
He, who is a father, will go through the toughest of ordeals to ensure that his children are safe.
My father, I try not to be biased, but I have to praise him, for all the life’s lessons, I have learnt from him.
He has struggled along the way, but he always ensures we have food on our plates, and dreams in our heads about brighter days.
Not only a provider of finances, my father is one who deserves life’s most wonderful praises.
As important as a mother is, she cannot fill the void of a father. His role is as unique as she is.
At work, there are many dads. There is Dale Andrews who has five children. He is Kaieteur News’ “crime chief”. He knows everything about what’s happening in the world of crime, yet finds the time to take the best care of his children. They adore him, but not because he is the “great crime chief”, but because he is their hero.
There is Leonard Gildarie. He has a boy and a girl. Everyone can recognize them, because he always has their photograph as his computer’s screensaver. His face lights up when he talks about them all day.
There is Michael Jordan who stays in the office at late nights just trying to find the right answers to his children’s social and academic questions. His face too lights up as he talks about them.
Nigel McKenzie, a proud father. His love too reflects as he talks about his kids.
These are just to name a few, but there are so many other daddies who do their best. To yours, to mine, to all the Dads, a Happy Daddy’s Day!