Many people do not know this about me, but I've always had an issue with people saying 'I hate my dad.' Growing up, we all go through that phase, where we 'hate our parents' when we can't get what we want. But growing up, I never HAD my dad. Many of you reading this may say 'SO WHAT?' But I want you to think of this: If you have both parent's, you can wake up the next morning & you can greet your parents however you want to. You can tell them 'I love you' every day. You can give them a hug & show them that you're sorry for the things that you did. BUT, what if, that one day came? What if you got that one terrible phone call? Many people on here who have lost a parent, or parental figure, they KNOW what I'm talking about. That terrible, dreaded phone call or knock on the door, the one you never expect to get, that tells you, so cruelly that your parent is dead. The one that RIPS your parent away from you. I haven't been through that myself. But, I do NOT have a dad. I was a baby when my dad, in a sense 'died' to me. He did not want me. He told my mother to abort me, told my mother to get rid of me. His lifestyle was more important to him then the human life he had created.
I have been through the issue above though, when you lose a parent-figure. My wonderful, precious, grandfather. He was my hero, my father-figure, he was my.....he was the person my father refused to be. He died before I was a teenager, but today, even as I write this, some 15 years later, I'm reduced to tears. So think about it, when you say that you 'hate' your mom, or you 'hate' your dad, You don't really HATE them. You just dislike the things, or thing that they did. Don't EVER take any time you have with a parent or parent-figure for granted. As a matter of fact, don't ever take time with ANYONE you love for granted, because you never now when you might get that dreaded call. I for one, know for a fact that if I were EVER to say those horrid words to my mother & I were to lose her, I'd never forgive myself. I love my mother, I'd give anything for my mother. She's all I have now, which is why I tell her every single day, at least once: 'I Love You', because as I said, you never know what the next day brings. You never now what the next phone call, or knock on the door might bring. It just might bring them dreaded words, them words that will rip your loved one away from you forever. So never leave them on bad terms, make sure that you have nothing to regret.