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Never Daddy’s Little Girl |
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I often wonder what it would be like to have that special relationship that you often hear daughter’s have with their father’s. To have them look at you with pride and admiration, knowing that under any circumstance daddy will protect them, be there for them and guide them through all their joy, heartache and tears.
I sometimes sit and watch the little girls at the park with their dad’s, beaming from ear to ear as they are pushed back and forth on the swing. Knowing that as they lunge forward high into the sky….daddy will be there waiting on their way back down. Laughter echoes across the park as both father and daughter delight in their time together.
I walk down to the beach and see a dad walking his dog with his teenage daughter. The outward appearance to a casual onlooker would show a daughter embarrassed to be seen with her dad, however I see a very different picture. A father teasing and joking with his daughter, tousling her hair as she wrinkles her face, trying to disguise her obvious delight in her father’s playfulness. The façade she shows the world as she spends quality time with her dad has now been exposed, as her giggle becomes a boisterous cackle.
High school arrives…dating, driving, prom….I watch as the girls stand around dressed in their beautiful dresses, hair piled in flowing ringlets on top of their head. Make up, nails and heels…flashes of light as the pictures are being snapped one right after another. Each father holding on tightly to his now grown daughter not wanting to let her go off with a boy he hardly knows. Looking into their eyes you can almost hear their thoughts, “Who will protect her if anything goes wrong”. The daughters glow with a radiance of peace, comfort, and affection, as they enter the limo and look back adoringly at their devoted fathers.
These are the pictures that are a daily reminder of the relationship, love and affection that somehow passed me by. I never had those special moments….that special relationship that every little girl dreams of. Daddy’s little girl is something that somehow jumped past my childhood, teenage years and adult life, just as a raging forest fire burns hotly through a town with every house being saved except that one individual home. Everyone rushes back to see the wonder and amazement of their life and belongings. As I rush back to stare at the charred, broken and crumbled remains. I quickly turn to look around in awe at the view around me. Daddy’s little girl is something that will never be for me….but my life has taught me to take joy in the moments that seem ordinary to others. A life that will be used to encourage, inspire and lift up those girls who will never be “daddy’s little girl”.
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Re: Never Daddy’s Little Girl
I never understood the term "Daddy's Little Girl" for quite a long time. I love my Dad, and vice versa, yes he embaressed us dearly as teens and very deliberatley too,LOL. However he never showed much emotion, and treated us all very equally. If the Truth be known, I think my brother would be his pride and joy. My Dad encouraged us to be Mummy's little girls, to seek her wisdom and council on all things, if in trouble talk to Mum, she will guide, and so true that was. Though I do remember a time when on returning home from working overseas, I asked my Dad if I could join him for a pint at his local, he only went on a Friday. He was gobsmacked, and said "are you sure, you dont have to you know". I insisted and was paraded round the room to all present. I then discovered that the clientel new all about our lives, our achievements and our troubles, and Dad new all about their children. I felt then I knew the term and why it did acctually refer to my Sister and I , so humbled was I. Thankyou for sharing.
Luv,Winnie.xxxx
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Re: Never Daddy’s Little Girl
There are probably a miriad of things/circumstances that may cause us to miss out on the things that many children "take for granted" but all it means is like you say...we need to find peace and joy from other parts of our lives.
Haha...I will never be daddys girl either....or something like that
For all my mates, a father was the one that played footy, threw a ball, fixed things in the shed, went to the tip and above all made them into BOYS.
For me it was all different, from the many beltings and the drunken episodes where he just lay on the couch afterwards, to the sexuall abuse, he was always there but I so wanted to be one of the other boys, I wanted a dad.
He never read stories to me, took me to the tip, took me to show me where he worked and I nearly died a couple of times and he never came to see me.
I forgave him many times as a kid, just longing for us to bond....but it never happened.
I fell into a great big hole in my teens and early twenties until I realised that all I was doing was becoming what I had dispised all my life.
I am so glad though that I have a daughter of my own and I can see exactly where you are coming from and the 1st thing I am going to do is email a copy of your advice to her just so I can (feel her smile)
Thank you so much for reminding me how important our sons and daughters are to us.
I have that warm fuzzy feeling inside that lets me know it has all been the best ride in the world...nothing could ever come close.
Robert (Just Another Devoted Dad).
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Dee
