Letter to My Father

My father, who are my brother,

I thank you for giving me your genes. I thank you for bequeathing me a clean name, of which I can feel proud, holding my head high before anyone. I thank you for giving me a beautiful sister, mirror of my soul, comfort of my joys. I thank you for teaching me, by your example, to be a good man, a useful man, a man of initiative. I thank you for believing in me, and for investing your time and your resources in taking me even further than you have gone. I thank you for supporting me in my projects, launching me to fly in my own sky. I thank you for challenging me and daring me, moving me to overcome myself. I thank you for perpetuating yourself in me, through time and space.

I know it is not easy to be my father. You shaped me in my childhood and guided me in my adolescence. Now, the man I have become has come into the light. For a new man with ideas of his own to emerge under the shelter of another man of vast experience is not easy, but it is necessary. The sowing has been a success. The hour of harvest is drawing near. Let us enjoy, my father and my brother, this abundant harvest that awaits us! Let us enjoy it together with my mother and my sister. And let us give thanks to God, our common Father.