This coming Sunday is Father's Day. I'll be honest; Father's Day has been varying degrees of difficult for me over the last 10 years. In my adulthood, my dad and I (that's us on the left—bowl cut circle 1984!) have had a tough, up-and-down relationship for a variety of reasons (that I won't get into because I have a therapist I pay to listen to such things!). In the last eight months, however, we've managed to develop the most genuine, sincere, and respectful relationship we've had in years. How? I think there are two big reasons: 1) we've forgiven each other for things that happened in the past and 2) we haven't tried to recreate the relationship we had before, instead focusing on getting to know each other as people now. It's far from perfect and I still miss the relationship we used to have, but it has been a relief to let go of the past and to focus on the future.
With that in mind, in honor of Father's Day, I decided to share the top five pieces of advice my dad has given me over the years. (He has actually given me a lot more than five, but much of it would probably rub the general population the wrong way—he is a Communist-leaning lefty with a taste for psychedelics, after all.) Share your favorite bit of fatherly advice in the comments.
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