Kindle Notes & Highlights
And it was while I was missing him so acutely that I had the realization that I didn’t have to look far to find my father on a more apparent level in my brothers and I. We had inherited his hands, his feet, his forehead, traits of his personality, habits good and bad. But on a more obscure level, our father had taught us so much that a lot of him is within us, his family; yet his essence is also within all of us present today.
“The point of life is to be reasonably happy”. This was father’s catchphrase and a sentiment we’d hear expressed to us many times over. There is no such thing as being perfectly happy. And that, as we all know, is impossible. My father always encouraged instead to live your life on your own terms and in such a way, that you–at the end of the day–will be content.
“Know who you are and be who you are.” A lesson I believe my father was the embodiment of. My father’s greatest strength was that he knew his strengths and weaknesses and was able to not only acknowledge, but also strategize around them.
