Thanks

I'm going to do something with my life, eventually, I promise. Thank you for being the only thing in my life that remains constant and genuinely concerned with my well being. You are seriously the best dad ever. I would probably be completely screwed without you. I love that you give me my independence without hassling me constantly and that when I need your help, really truly need it, you give it. My roommates parents pay their rent, you don't pay mine. My roommates parents call them twice a week, you don't know my phone number. But when I realize I have to choose between rent, dues, or a tuition payment, you loan me tuition and dues. You think the way I live my life is reckless and selfish. You do not value the same things as I do, but you give me your opinion on them and that is all. You do not prevent me from doing them. I want to thank you for not showing me how to live, and for letting me figure it out my own. You may have messed up a lot of details and missed all the memos on how to parent. You suck at showing compassion, your punishments were intense, and I was never spoiled. But somehow you figured out the big picture. I just want to be something that makes you proud, and somehow I will be.