'Happy' Father's Day
Today is Father's day in the UK. 'Happy' Father's Day! There are fathers with long faces, sad fathers, angry fathers, disgruntled fathers, upset fathers, fathers to whom their kids can never measure up to, dictatorial fathers - yet I am lucky, my father was a truly 'Happy' person, a content happy person with a lot of belief in his kids and the goodness of humanity in general. (It was always the situation not the person, when things went wrong.) A father with whom we disagreed, had arguments, yet at the end of the day, there were never scars or regrets, the underlying bond of love ran too deep for that, though we never said 'I love you, Appa'. Until his last few years, when Appa became fragile in his health, we had never hugged Appa or even held his hands! A father who was not really a hands-on parent, sometimes we held this against him, Appa you did not scoure educational opportunities like other fathers, you did not put us in classes, you did no