Saturday, April 1, 2023
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My sweet sweet daddy, I don’t even know where to begin. You are one of the most important people in my life, and now that you’re gone I feel lost. I will miss you forever and can’t wait to meet again with you in heaven, where you will not longer be in pain or suffering. I have admired the person you were since the day I was born. You have always been so compassionate and loving towards the people around you. To know you and be apart of your life is a blessing. You blessed so many people with your sweet smile and being able to make a joke about anything. I’m holding onto the good times.
I remember when it finally snowed in columbia, you got your four wheeler out and a laundry basket, tied it to the back and drove my friends and I around the neighborhood all day. It showed me that you could always make your own fun. You could make nothing into something great. You were so creative and smart. You inspired my love for animals, teaching me responsibility when I was young with my first puppy Sarge. I remember taking long drives to georgia to see family and the best part was the drive itself. You always would have something to talk about, and most of the time something to put a smile on my face. We would take walks every day around the neighborhood and try to see who could beat the other to the house once we got a couple houses away from ours. I remember you walking home from school with me almost everyday waiting for me on the corner of the street. I would race out the classroom, because I was so excited to see you and walk home with you. I remember it snowed another time and you sat outside with me building a fort out of sticks and you yelling to mom saying “Penny, there’s Indians in the front yard!” The snoball fights we would have, and you pulling me on the sled. I remember just being able to talk to you about anything and getting advice from you. No matter what it was we could sit and talk for hours. The easter egg hunts you and mom would set up for me before I would even wake up. Telling me that you wanted a big farm some day, with horses, goats, pigs, chickens, a blue heeler, and a bull mastiff. Those are the moments I’m holding onto.
I have always wanted to succeed for you daddy and I will try every day to make you proud. I strive to be the person you always knew I would be. I love helping other people who are less fortunate because you told me not everyone has what I have. I want to be compassionate, joyful, and all the wonderful aspects you have always had.
I still can’t process everything and believe that you’re gone. There are so many unspoken words, conversations, and apologies I wish I could have with you. Nothing will ever fill the void that has been left in my heart since you’re gone. I know that you aren’t really gone and that you will always be with me, watching over me. I see you in the sunrise and sunset everyday and you paint the sky so beautifully daddy. I see you in myself everyday. When I look at myself I see you. Small features of myself that will always give me the reminder of you. I see you in the trees when I’m driving and I see you when I’m at the beach, where I feel most at peace. The peace I wish I could have given to you. A day doesn’t go by that you aren’t on my mind 24/7. I think of you when I wake up, on my way to school, at practice, and before I go to bed. You are all my mind is on. Our family as shown so much love and support and you would be so proud of them. Everyone loves you and wishes you were still here. I wish I could change things and flip a switch that gave you the peace you needed before all this and would have healed you before and lived the long happy life you were supposed to. I miss you so much and I will love you more than anyone in this world daddy. Everything I do is for you and I will forever cherish and honor the memory of you. Rest easy in heaven daddy.
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