What do you remember about your dad?
Hola amigos
Agradezco una vez más el que me hayas hecho recordar a papá amiga @tibaire. Y tú amigo, aún estás a tiempo, si deseas participar. Por acá te dejo el enlace
Hello Friends
I appreciate this opportunity given to me by @tibaire to talk about my father to which I will respond with much affection and respect.
I feel that to talk about my father, I need to start by referring to his mother, my grandmother. Isabel Rivas was a woman of strong character and a very good heart. Unfortunately, as my father used to say, "she was never lucky with those she chose as her life companions" and my old man suffered with her the consequences of her inanities.
Dad was the first of nine children. He was the oldest brother and almost father of them all. So much so that my uncles and aunts used to ask him for his blessing. Dad was the one who got up first and went to bed last, accompanying my grandmother while she arranged everything for the next day's empanada sale. He sold empanadas on the beach for a long time because my grandmother's second partner said he would not put him to school because he was not going to "put a knife in his neck", something that Dad, as he said, understood much later.
Enrique Rivas, my dad grew up being a victim of mistreatment by those who should have taken care of him. He told us that once he stayed a little longer on the beach after selling and when he got home they were waiting for him with a hose. That day he promised himself that if he ever had children, they would not go through the same thing and it was a promise he kept.
Dad was always a respectful, loving man with a firm but fair word. I remember he never hit me, but when he would talk to me to get my attention, for some tremendous thing, I would start crying and he would end up giving me a hug. I love my father and I will love him beyond life. With him I learned to see a little bit beyond what is presented in front of me. He couldn't finish elementary school, but there wasn't a subject you couldn't talk to him about. He loved to read the Bible and The Selections, he said that was his personal library :)
One time he was out of work and I remember that no matter how much he ran errands he couldn't find a job and he would say, I don't want to unseat me (a term I didn't understand) but from the look on his face I could tell it wasn't any good. The fact was that my grandmother told my dad, "Don't be lazy man, he who wants to find seeks and finds" (that I did understand). That day I did not speak to my grandmother and she, when he arrived told him about it. He came into my room and asked me what had happened with my grandmother, why I did not speak to her and I told him that I had heard how she had called him, that I felt that his words had been very unfair and much more knowing what kind of man and son he was. He only say to me, "daughter, but she is my mom,...Forgive her."
He sang beautifully. When he carried me, many times I fell asleep with my ear to his chest listening to some of Javier Solis' songs, his favorite singer. Where daddy went, that's where he wanted to be. Mom used to tell me that when I was two years old and he had to go out, he had to do it secretly because if I found out, I would stand at the door of the porch of the house with my sandals in hand and say "I'm leaving, I'm leaving" and then, either he didn't go out or Mom had to distract me until he slipped away.
Dad was always looking out for each of his three children, he gave us his support and in every process, his advice.
Although he is no longer with us, his essence remains. My siblings and I are what he sowed in each one of us. I love you DAD!
I thank you once again for reminding me of Dad my friend @tibaire. And you my friend, there is still time, if you want to participate. Here's the link