Dear Daughters of Men,
Like a loving mother, a loving father's heart's desire and prayer to God is that each of his children will remain perfectly healthy while growing in love, gaining in wisdom, and living life to the fullest. In other words, we not only want the best for our children, but the absolute best for them in all aspects and dimensions of life.
Yet, we know that this isn't a perfect world. So, you are bound to meet your fair share of challenges, adversity, trials, and tribulations. Thus, we also pray that, regardless of what comes your way, you will always maintain your dignity and self-respect, be empathetic and just in your dealings with others, strive to be a positive presence in our world, rise far above self-pity, self-loathing, and self-destruction, and not settle for anything less than honesty, genuine friendship, and mutual adoration and passion in your most intimate relationships.
We also want you to always remember that, not only is "beauty is in the eye of the beholder," but it's more important that you behold your own beauty regardless of what others' eyes may see. So-called standards of beauty are subject to shift with the winds of social change; and, even worst, these specious standards are constantly used to bludgeon masses of human beings into objectifying the bodies, hating themselves, and emptying their bank accounts.
Indeed, it's such an ugly thing that's done with beauty in our world that the only way you can consistently maintain your self-confidence and self-respect is through unyielding self-acceptance. Love yourself and you will have taken the first step, indeed the greatest step, to experiencing true love to fullest extent humanly possible.
Sincerely,
iAMrj * richard jones
"The proudest father in the whole wide world!"
Like a loving mother, a loving father's heart's desire and prayer to God is that each of his children will remain perfectly healthy while growing in love, gaining in wisdom, and living life to the fullest. In other words, we not only want the best for our children, but the absolute best for them in all aspects and dimensions of life.
Yet, we know that this isn't a perfect world. So, you are bound to meet your fair share of challenges, adversity, trials, and tribulations. Thus, we also pray that, regardless of what comes your way, you will always maintain your dignity and self-respect, be empathetic and just in your dealings with others, strive to be a positive presence in our world, rise far above self-pity, self-loathing, and self-destruction, and not settle for anything less than honesty, genuine friendship, and mutual adoration and passion in your most intimate relationships.
We also want you to always remember that, not only is "beauty is in the eye of the beholder," but it's more important that you behold your own beauty regardless of what others' eyes may see. So-called standards of beauty are subject to shift with the winds of social change; and, even worst, these specious standards are constantly used to bludgeon masses of human beings into objectifying the bodies, hating themselves, and emptying their bank accounts.
Indeed, it's such an ugly thing that's done with beauty in our world that the only way you can consistently maintain your self-confidence and self-respect is through unyielding self-acceptance. Love yourself and you will have taken the first step, indeed the greatest step, to experiencing true love to fullest extent humanly possible.
Sincerely,
iAMrj * richard jones
"The proudest father in the whole wide world!"
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That is a wonderful letter. I love to see fathers reach out to their kids. I love to see loving parents be there for their children. I almost cried reading this. I think I am going to call my father later tonight..
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