Cheers to All the Fathers

It's tough to be a father, the world expects us to be "Superman", we ought to be 24/7 call center agent to our children care; carpenter, plumber, electrician at home at the same time clown and magician to our children even when we have a bad day and most of all always on-line ATM machines even when we could hardly fill up our car gas tank; we ought to love the mother of our children faithfully at all times and be delighted by our children in everything.

Just the other night, my son hugs me and whisper "Dad, I want to be like you", it encourages me and at the same time scares me, I don't know about you but when you're imperfect like me, these six words should scare you; this reminds me that on top of all the roles I mentioned above, fathers ought to be role models to their children and this for me is the most difficult part of being a father.

To all fathers out there, give yourself a pat in the back, it's not easy and absolutely impossible to be a perfect father but the mere struggle to be one should already merit 'a pat in the back' and whether we like it or not, we will continue to be 'superhero' of our children. Cheers to all the Fathers!!!!