Yesterday I went with my daughter to check out University and the options in another city...seemed simple enough or so I thought. as we walked through the dorm rooms looking at the prison like conditions it suddenly dawned on me that my little Girl would be leaving.
It was a bit of a 'father of the bride' moment when something inside began to hurt.
This girl who has been so dependant and makes up...and takes up...such a huge portion of my life will ultimately leave to live a life outside of the influence and guidance that I have in her life.
It's not that I don't trust her...I do. it's that I don't trust everyone else! These people who I have never met will now be mentors and guides, teachers and lecturers. Have I put in enough? Have I adequately laid the foundations? Will she hold to the values and morals we have endeavoured to instill in her? Time will tell. But there is a more personal hurt I feel because this Girl is not just a daughter but a friend and one sixth of our home and our family. That moment of realisation is that our family in another year is going to change for all time and that the balance of what we have known is no longer going to be the same. Forest Gump said life is like a box of Chocolates and you never know what you're gonna get...But you also don't get to eat the same chocky twice so make sure you enjoy it when you do.
Have a great day. Richard
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Really appreciated this one Rich. So true. And being a year down the track from you, I can say that it is amazing just how much those values actually stick or even find their way from the head to the heart. Just when you thought those lessons you tried to teach just didn't sink in, you find yourself watching with bated breath as your child pulls out something from their tool box that they didn't even realise themselves, was hiding in there all along.
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