00:05:00.520My heart hurts for those who didn't get to grow up with their hero like I did.
00:05:03.660I don't know what I would do without my dad, or more specifically, a dad, a present one who has been involved and loved me since day one.
00:05:10.500When I'm older and have a family of my own, I will tell them stories about you.
00:05:13.820I will tell them how their grandpa made me laugh until I cried, taught me to never give up, and how he loved me in a way that made me believe I could survive anything.
00:05:20.500If I one day even become half the man my father is, I will probably be able to say I did something right.
00:05:25.680So as I finish my paper, I'm asked about something I love more than myself.
00:05:29.060What other answer could I have chosen than the very one who made me who I am today?
00:05:32.600and i won't waste this page on a score or even a close friend because those things are temporary
00:05:37.320but my father's love is permanent i will carry it everywhere i go and display the man he is in
00:05:41.920everything i do so dear dad i wonder if you knew the only thing i wish to accomplish in this world
00:05:47.220is to become just like you oh oh we have another one can't put no words how much i love you you're
00:05:54.360one of the only people that no matter how many arguments we've had no matter how long we go
00:05:57.600without talking even though we have to be aware that anything women put on the internet is
00:06:01.440performative to be fair to be fair but these are kind of cute these are cute and i'm gonna enjoy
00:06:05.220i'm gonna enjoy them as if they're real no matter how many tears we've caused each other i could
00:06:09.480never dream of having a different dad from reading me bedtime stories to picking me up when i get my
00:06:13.760heart broken you've always been there you understand me in a way no one else does you're
00:06:17.540my best friend and my biggest heartbreak will be the day i have to say goodbye to you who's gonna
00:06:21.420pick me up then you've inspired me to be the person i am today your kind heart your empathy
00:06:25.260for others your patience and understanding i've learned more from you growing up than any textbook
00:06:29.520could ever teach me you've shown me what it means to love without conditions to forgive without
00:06:33.160keeping score to stand tall even when the world feels heavy you've taught me that strength isn't
00:06:37.620ever about falling it's about getting back up again and again even when it hurts like hell
00:06:41.680when i look at the person i'm becoming i see so much of you in me the way i treat people the way
00:06:46.560i find humor in the hardest moments the way i care deeply even when it hurts i carry pieces of you1.00
00:06:51.520everywhere i go do you know what there is this girl on twitter today um mary morgan what an idiot1.00
00:06:57.260this woman. I'm going to rant about this because it's kind of relevant. I wasn't even planning on1.00
00:07:03.100doing this, but it's kind of relevant to the reaction I'm doing. So Mary Morgan, she says,
00:07:08.960lots of, let's clear things up. Men do not have parental instincts the way that childless women0.99
00:07:15.400have maternal instincts. We observe this even in the way little girls play versus boys play.0.69
00:07:22.140Men first experience paternal instincts once they have their own children. And typically,
00:07:26.480these paternal instincts are only felt for their own children and no one else's just not true i
00:07:32.160mean how many coaches become father-like figures for their students or they're like um the i don't1.00
00:07:38.080know what do you call it the athletes men are not nurturers men don't gush do you know how stupid0.99
00:07:43.120this sounds like i just can't men don't gush over kids in public yes that's performative0.99
00:07:49.200men don't have baby fever yes because men understand that it's a responsibility where women
00:07:54.720use it to build their brand right if a man wants to possess a child for any reason other than it1.00
00:07:59.260being a product of his own lineage he is a predator mary you must be the fucking dumbest1.00
00:08:05.200woman alive that is some stupid shit to say um and you'd be talking about the feminist radical1.00
00:08:10.760gender abolitionist position to protest any of the above points this is this should explain why1.00
00:08:16.800a dad simulator game marketed to most childless men gives gives people the creeps to those denying
00:08:23.060biology here would you hire a male babysitter would you meet that kid's kindergarten teacher1.00
00:08:28.580and it's a dude how do you feel about that mary women are the ones banging students not fathers0.93
00:08:33.560not the men right what do most women have that men don't are we beginning to understand each
00:08:38.860other now men aren't women none of this is a knock against men it's just true it's like women will0.69
00:08:43.200say things that are offensive and completely a knock events against men and then pretend they0.61
00:08:48.320didn't right so i said she goes this is dumb because i said i would trust a male babysitter1.00
00:08:54.140over a female one and she goes that um she's saying that's stupid i'm like look women are1.00
00:08:59.520the ones more likely to be neglectful and abuse children so your comment was actually the one1.00
00:09:06.080that was stupid so i'm so excited to see you become a grandpa because i know you're gonna be1.00
00:09:11.400a damn good one and one day when i have a family of my own i'll tell them stories about you i'll1.00
00:09:16.060tell them how their grandpa made me laugh until I cried, how he taught me to never give up, and how0.99
00:09:19.780he loved me in a way that made me believe I could survive anything. Dad, I don't say it enough, but
00:09:24.460I am so grateful for you, for your sacrifices, for your guidance, for the love you give so
00:09:28.900selflessly. If I grow up to be even half the person you are, I'll know I've done something
00:09:33.720right. You're my safe place, my teacher, my protector, and my hero, and no matter where
00:09:37.780light takes me, I'll always be proud to call you my dad. All right, let's see who's next, this guy.
00:09:46.060Which my dad is my dad in every lifetime over again.