Worlds Greatest Dad.

My Dad is and always was the world's greatest Dad. He taught me many things and showed me many tough acts of love and integrity. He had every good and bad reason in the world to cash out when the chips were down and the chips dwindled to the very bottom more than once. It may have occurred to him from time to time that there was an easier way of life, if it didn't then he is a saint as well.

But wait you can't possibly believe that, because you know the world's greatest Dad. Then let me save us all a decent chunk of time. Though I can tell you stories after stories that prove my old man I know that so do you have stories that would fill chapters and make novels about your Father too. With that in mind, we can move on we will skip over the sappy heroic story that is my Dad and yours, so let's take some paces back and look at this from a broader perspective.

Dads across the world are all very unique. From the hats that they wear on Sunday to the tools that they pick up to use Monday through Friday to the hobbies that they might partake in on Saturday. Dads are all one of a kind in their own right. Just like a snowflake that is individual in design and beauty, is in the end just like all the rest of the snow that falls alongside it, made of precipitation that when cooled to 32 degrees turns from droplets of water into a cloud into flakes of ice that fall elegantly to the ground from the cloud and they stack into a system that when added together though they are all of the different design will look like a massive blanket of uniformity.

So what makes one father so different from the other while he is built of the same structure of bones and driven by the same pressure of blood? The family that he keeps is his source of individuality. He may have a son or a daughter or both at once or many of the same altogether. But he is driven by the love of his family into a complex structure that if ever able to be seen from afar would be as intricate a design as seen of the snowflake.

Now dads are different not just in the fingerprint but by what they believe in whether that's their football team as the world's last greatest hope or believe it be baseball or the attendance of church on Sunday to the casting of their vote at election time. They are made of the same stuff, blood bones heart, and guts. As individual in design as the snowflake and the very same thread spun by the same ingredients.

Some fathers will see their kids through extraordinary blinders. We have all met that Dad who he alone has, at last, the greatest child of all time and may as well be the next savior of Mankind. Other parents see themselves in their offspring, as crystal clear as if they were starting in the mirror eager to relive life to their satisfaction vicariously. Sadly others will shirk their duties and leave for any number of reasons albeit good or bad or any number of debilitating fears that maybe only God will ever know.

At the end of the day when the snow has fallen shallow or deep and the difference is locked in a pure sheet of snow unblemished and without care of a single piece for where thousands are multiplied by untold millions, at last, no matter who or what or why your Dad was or was not you, are apart of the unique system of individuals that make the masses of humanity and if my Dad is the greatest Dad of all time then it's pretty clear that yours is too.

Now since I've made my long story short and perhaps we can agree that everyone's father is the proverbial GOAT ill do my story the justice it deserves. For every sacrifice he made I have failed my father and all his biggest dreams. I failed miserably and without a doubt that man still loves me and his world will revolve around my world as much as I need him, though I certainly don't deserve his love and constant attention and that is why I say without a doubt that my Dad is the greatest of all time. And that's why I'm sure yours is too even if you never knew him and even if you can't put your finger on why.