Daddy was Fired
so about a month ago your dad was fired from his job of 11 years. It was mostly arrogance that was my downfall - I thought I could do anything and was untouchable - let that be a lesson to you but not the real lesson I want to impart.
You only get one family. You have friends come and go throughout life and if you’re lucky you’ll have 2 or 3 friends that are like family. I made the mistake of thinking that work was my family - and while there are some people there that I can call my friends - many of them that I thought were my friends... were just work friends... and that’s ok. Hey - work is work- and you’ll make friends at work even some good work friends but when any person is up against themselves as a choice of their own gain and or savrfidice or a “work friend” they’re going to choose themself every time —- and that’s the difference with family. Family will always choose someone else over themselves - and don’t ever forget that.
I am very sad to have lost so many friends and I’ll never get them back - simply because I don’t work there and they have no reason to be my friend anymore - and again - that’s natural - but when I think of the thousands of hours I spent away from you and the countless times I put work before my family... well - that’s a lesson I learned - and it won’t ever happen again. Because there is nothing that compares to family - nothing. Money can be made. Jobs can be found. New friends can be made. But you only get one family - and I’m so mad at myself for losing sight of that. And I’m not nearly as sorry I was fired as I am that I thought that job held a place over you - I’m sorry that I was fired and it won’t matter to anyone - but that job mattered to the number of times I made sacrifices at your expense.
Your dad is sorry for being careless. But most of all your dad is sorry he sold you out for money.
