On this Father’s Day that is falling on Sunday (June 21), I try not to feel entirely insensitive of remembering my father who had passed away more than six months ago. Obviously, the feeling on a particular day is one of anxiety and distress about many decades of adulthood approaching before me without his insight to derive support from. At this point in time, I am not joyfully looking at what kind of person I shall firmly be after losing my father just at the beginning of the month of December last year.
The seven-letter word ‘FATHER’ stands for friendly, achiever, trustworthy, heroic, exceptional, really a great person. All these qualities are ingrained in a father’s personality. A father’s love contributed to a child’s overall development is not different as does a mother’s love.
Father’s Day is very much an American custom. This is in contrast to Mother’s Day, which has a very varied history in the USA and the United Kingdom. It is considered a day of parental bonds as well as father’s influence in a conventional or open society. Initially, this day had begun on June 5 but it was pushed to the third Sunday of June to recognize several roles a father plays in a child’s life. Astonishingly this day holds its beginning at the hands by an American lady known by the name of Sonora Smart Dodd around the year of 1910.