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How About This For A Role Model
Hey kids! In a time when you guys are searching desperately for role models, and have obviously lowered your standards about what a role model should be, might I make a suggestion? How about the guy who is at least 50% responsible (with the exception of the new and improved method of producing kids) for you being here. That is right, the same guy that looks a little like you. The guy who your relatives always say that you remind them of. The guy that allowed you to crawl all over him when you were a bit smaller and allows you to run all over him now that your older. I am talking about the same guy who is too tough to shed a tear, but probably cried like a baby, in private of course, the day you were born.
This is the guy who told you that you were great in whatever you were doing, whether it was baseball, football, gymnastics, or ballet, but might have been the only one that really thought so. This is the guy who convinced his son that he was a pretty good fisherman, even though at the time he was assisting the doctor as they carefully removed a hook from his ear. This is the man that was so proud when you first rode your bike without training wheels and ran to your side like an Olympic sprinter when you fell. Remember, this is the same old guy, who dressed up in some unbelievably ridiculous outfits, even for him, as he walked with you to every single door in the neighborhood for one Halloween after another. I am talking about the silly old guy who got more excited than you did on Christmas morning while unwrapping the presents and reached levels of anger that you didn't know were possible when trying to put some of those presents together. This is the guy who would argue with your mother when she thought that you were getting too many presents. Need I go on?
This is the fellow that tells his daughter that she is the most beautiful girl in the world and will gladly punch out the unfortunate boy who ever tells her different. This is the guy that will proudly display his gun and knife collection on the same night of his teenage daughter's first date and who has the unbelievable ability to stay awake, no matter how tired he might be, until she gets back home; which better not be very late. This is the guy who has the uncanny ability to tell when something is bothering you, even though he may not have a clue what to do about it. This is the guy who wakes up one morning and discovers that his little girl or boy has become a beautiful young woman or a strikingly handsome young man, apparently overnight.
This is the guy who beamed with pride at every graduation; kindergarten, high school or college, and probably said more than he should have, "that's my boy or that's my girl." This is the old coot who still sneaks around and looks at pictures of you when you were a runt and wonders where the time went. This is the old guy who actually appears to he happy as walks down the aisle with the most beautiful girl he has ever known or will proudly stand beside his son as they begin a future that he knows full well will involve less and less of him.
In a nutshell kids, this guy is the obvious choice. He may not have tattoos, or he might and you just do not know it, he may not be able to sing, dance, or shoot baskets like "Mike." He probably has embarrassed you in every imaginable way, especially when he was trying to be his coolest. He probably has always been over protective, and will be until the day he dies.
Posters on the wall of Madonna, Brittany, Justin or all the other current "role-models" may have a little more zip than the yellowed old picture of Dad on the dresser in your room, but you can bet when all is said and done and other supposed role models have fallen by the proverbial wayside, old Dad will still be standing. Is there a better choice as a role model? I do not think so!
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