My Special Day

"When you both were married on the same day I born then why don't you invite me on your wedding, now remember, I will not invite you people on my wedding", the first time I angrily asked this to my dad on my second birthday when I could not even speak correctly. The same question I would ask my dad every birthday using the same words. The same answer I got with a kindly smile, "…

…the same answer in a same voice every passing year. Days turn into nights and weeks and months and all I do is think of him. Neither my mom nor my brother and sister celebrate their birthdays, which make us realize that the best part of our birthdays was dad. I really appreciate the saying of an unknown author, which is "any man can be a father. It takes someone special to be a dad."