My friend writes: I never seem to know when Father’s Day creeps in again. I am beginning to wonder if it is celebrated twice a year. I hear it’s another one today. Were my father alive today, he would have been 76+. I passed up a vital opportunity while he was alive and I wish you will learn from me.
First, realize that your parents will not be around forever. If you want to build them a house, or buy a them a car, or sew that safari suit, or buy a new set of chairs, or change their car, or buy them their medication, or sink them a borehole, now is the time to do it. At their sunset, all you will see is what you have not done. Dispel the lie that your parents are comfortable and do not need anything from you. Anything you do for them, you do for yourself, really. It is a privilege to return what little you can.
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