15 years

[fbhjr]

Fifteen years ago today my father died.
Keen eyed observers will notice that 15 years and just over a week ago is when I started sword fighting in front of an audience.
We buried my father the day before my first show.
So, I guess it was over his dead body...

Maybe I shouldn't be flippant about it.
Maybe he shouldn't have told me I was an embarrassment to the family.
I'm willing to call it even.

Comments

[meathiel]

:-(

[ravena-kade.livejournal.com]

I think you have done well and you have a right to be flippant if you want... I don't see it as flippant though. You are being you and he was foolish for not accepting you.

[manue7a.livejournal.com]

Your father seemed to have been a difficult person. But that was his own fault, not anyone else's.

[chaquir.livejournal.com]

(((hugs)))

[morgan-lafaye.livejournal.com]

Your father was so far from the truth, that you have to be flippant about it. You are so much more than the sum of your family. I'm glad you are the "embarrassment of that family", it means you are are a good person.

[chalcedonygrey.livejournal.com]

Sounds fair to me.

[hugs]

[hindustar.livejournal.com]

*hugs*

[brickhousewench.livejournal.com]

I think the problem that we both have with our families is that, never mind everything we've achieved, they just can't see past what they wanted us to be. And because we didn't follow the paths they had mapped out for us, they consider us failures. Because following orders that weren't what we want to do would have made us successes at life? NOPE. We know better than that. And that might be why they're so pissed at us, because we chose our own paths.

[merilune.livejournal.com]

I think that's fair. From what you have told us, it sounds like being an embarrassment to your family is a good thing. It means that you're not like them and who you are is very awesome.

[endlessblush.livejournal.com]

*hugs*

[anwyn-elfmaiden.livejournal.com]

*hugs*