My father has taught me a lot in my life, I’ll give him that. He’s taught me about medicine. About how best to care for people. But his greatest lesson was one he never saw coming. He taught me that fatherhood is more than daily chitchats and brief insignificant check-ins. It’s about what he never gave me. Love without reason. And through my actions, my child will know that he’s a top priority to me, for no reason but love.
