Me, Myself and I

Nearly once every few weeks, someone somewhere says, "you look just like your father". I loved my dad, but I have to be honest, he seldom looked healthy, especially the last ten years of his life. He was overweight, he had hypertension, slight diabetes and he was in pain every day from something. Years and years of hard work played a major toll on my dad. When I look at myself, such as in this "selfie", I do see my dad. I see a over weight 48 year old, who is in pain nearly every day due to years of abuse of this one and only body I was given. Seven surgeries in nineteen years is hard on a guy. So far, I have no signs of hypertension or diabetes. My cholesterol is slightly elevated but other than that, all I see is a caring person who cares about others more than himself, and that folks was my dad. So, with that said, I will take those "you look like your dads" and the occasional " you act like him too" LOL 

Miss ya dad