Personal Narrative: My Father Daughter Relationship

To parent means more than to guide a child through her adolescent years. It also means to nurture and protect, to love and encourage. The relationship a father and daughter share plays a crucial role in the early stages of her development. For adoptees and foster children, especially ones too young to have known their own biological parents or to have formed a strong bond to some sort of parental figure, their development risks becoming malformed if the right state of mind surrounding their parents is not instilled. Never knowing one’s own origins creates a strong imagination, whether it be imagining royal relatives with grandiose castles and obedient servers to comply with every wish and whim. Most foster children’s wishes include wishing …show more content…
Intense blue eyes with crows feet (that only developed because of the frequency of his smile) gaze intently at everything; a lackluster apple receives as much interest as the most enrapturing novel. A looming 6 '3" and strong, broad shoulders create an intimidating but all encompassing presence that feels safe and sheltered. While his presence is a bit brooding, his face wields no signs of hostility, but rather a warm, welcoming countenance make up for his pseudo-menacing features. His mouth resembles a maw with a wide and toothy smile that at first glance seems carnivorous, but after a double take transforms into its true form: a jovial beam that could make even a vagabond clown return a weak smile. He has a birth mark, right under his chin, in the form of a fore-shortened Florida with a big of Georgia added onto it, if looked at from the right angle. His skin appears fair and taut, only his eyes betray him and tell of his true age, but at a mere 39 years old, he looks great. He has strong, lean muscles from charity work that include lots of manual labor, yet never enjoyed going to the gym to work out. His fingertips would be calloused and well used, with nimble fingers that float across a guitar’s fret board to make an effortlessly beautiful melody to maybe even play a soft lullaby or two at night to ease his daughter into a peaceful dream about castles …show more content…
He believes that, while maintaining a level of individuality, there are rules that everyone in a society need to follow to allow for positive relationships and connections to be made. For example, my father always leaves 10% tip for the waiter. The barely livable wages a waiter receives drives him absolutely irate, because he understands what it means to live on pennies and tips alone, and he believes that it is an undignified way to live. To live is to be able to surpass survival and the bare minimum, and one cannot do that in a capitalist society like America, as he would say, with a plethora of choice words and passion dripping from his voice if one were to ask him his thoughts on this subject. He also believes that healthcare should be free because one should not have to pay just to stay alive, and he despises the government for even considering putting such a fiscal strain on the populace. While his ideas can be radical and very liberal in nature, he only has the best intentions at heart, and his heart certainly has enough room for everyone in the world to fit comfortably, with enough care to administer to everyone twice over. His charity work outshines his speeches about humanity, as his weekends are spent doing manual labor for the ghettos and slums of rural areas that are underdeveloped. His charity work impacts more than just those its recipients. His peers