"You're just like your
father." "You sound like your dad - that’d be something he’d say." "Boy, do you take
after your dad."
Some of you may be
able to relate to some of these remarks with your own parents. “You're just
like your father” or “you remind me of your mother.”
In my younger years, I
MAY have gotten...take that back, I KNOW I got irked by these sort of
remarks.
As a young girl in my
teenage years and twenties, the last thing I wanted was to be like my
dad.
He's not a bad guy - I
just didn't get the comparison and wanted my own identity. Not one like my dad!
I think this is pretty
typical.
Now that I'm at the
ripe old age of MIDLIFE, I'm getting closer to figuring out (accepting) that identity. And, guess what? I'm very much like my
dad.
Except now - I'm
pretty proud of that!
So, when did this
realization and acceptance sink in? Hell if I know. I just know over the years,
after much thought, my dad and I do have similar traits.
He's a thinker and, at
times, maybe even an over thinker.
You see, I'm also a thinker and I know for a fact, in certain situations, I can
be an over thinker. So, I'm assuming
my dad has this tendency too.