My Dad

There is no chance I can talk about my father with any kind of depth in a blog entry, but it's father's day so now is as good a time as I'm going to have all year to write a little bit about him.

When I was in second grade my dad spent maybe three dollars and inadvertently changed my life. That's right, he bought me my first X-Men comic. Uncanny X-Men #300. Up until then I'd only seen the cartoon and had a Where's Waldoesque X-Men object hunt book. I'd venture to say that a good 25% of the knowledge in my head has stemmed from my love of comic books since that day. Nerdy? Oh totally, but I read somewhere that there are more written pages about X-Men than any other thing in human history so it must be somewhat important...off topic but I thought that was interesting.

My parents got divorced the summer before I started 4th grade. When I was in middle school, I pretty much went crazy. I hated school and I didn't like Linda who he had recently moved in with. I developed a "You're not my mom" type complex and must have blamed my dad because I hated him for a long time. For almost two years I barely saw his side of my family and refused to see and talk to him. I also pretty much refused to go to school in seventh grade which I'm sure I'll touch on again sometime.

Our relationship has been more than fixed since then of course. Without going into too much detail, my dad has always been there for me. He's a lawyer and he's gotten me out of my speeding tickets and helped one of my best friends when he got arrested with a small amount of weed on him. I know that whenever I'm in need of help in any way, my dad will do anything he can. My brother and I have always been his top priority.

I've learned more than just some random lesson from my dad. I'm an analyzer; I think about the people I'm close to a lot and from the time I've spent with him, I've learned who I am. Our paths in life are nowhere near the same, but sometimes I think that from our beginnings, we're just the same person who's made a lot of different decisions.

When it comes to parents, I'm one of the luckiest people in the world and while this is bordering on extremely sappy, it's Father's Day and I have a little buzz going so there it is.