Dear Dad,
It’s been 6 long months since you’ve left us. I know the world has changed in terms of technology, but if it wasn’t for my smart phone, I wouldn’t have the voice messages to hear your voice everyday nor a picture of us both together on my phone.
Dad, every time this story of ours was told it always made us laugh, but you would sit shaking your head but smiling at us too.
This goes back to the summer of 1994, a 5 1/2-week holiday to India! We went with our extended family! What a fantastic holiday we had, which included laughter, Delhi belly but most of all the countless memories!
So, the first part of our holiday was an 18 day and night trip visiting numerous gurdwaras high and low! Literally up in the Himalayas and low in the valleys.
A videographer was hired to capture our adventure. He, along with his assistant spent the entire 18 days with all of us. They were both friendly.
Soon they started to get a bit too friendly by staring at us. One day the staring got a bit annoying so I went up to him and said ‘you’re a pervert’. He replied ‘what’s a pervert?’.
I along with my sisters and cousin said ‘a good man, a wonderful person’
The videographer saw you dad smiling, he came and sat next to you and started telling you ‘Uncle Ji you know I am a pervert ‘he started hitting your leg with excitement and repeating ‘I’m a very good pervert!’.
Dad you just sat there and just shook your head at us, you never corrected him, you looked back him and said, ‘I know!’.
Dad I love you because of the type of dad you are, you could’ve been boring and unadventurous. I may be getting older each year but thanks to you I’m still young at heart.
(Which still gets me into trouble) 💓
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