What happened to Father's Day?

Today is Father’s Day. Have you forgotten about it?

Not surprising though, considering the fact that Father's Day usually came and went by without many people noticing it.

What a stake difference it was when Mother's Day approached about a month ago.
Days and even weeks before Mother's Day arrived, the red carpet was already spread far and wide. We see advertisements on the papers on Mother’s Day special meals, most beautiful mother contests, greatest mother contests, gift and beauty discounts for mothers, bakeries selling those cute cakes with a mother’s face on it......

When it was Father's Day's turn, many people were caught by surprise.

"This Sunday is Father's Day? Oh, I didn’t know that."

It seems like the society is so biased, (and for once) biased against the men.

From young, we learn songs that sing praises for our mothers, but I can hardly recall any that is dedicated to fathers.

Fathers may be so busy with their work that they hardly asked how their children are doing in school or with work. For some fathers, they hardly have the time and energy to engage in even small talk with their children after a busy day of work. When they reach home, they just want to catch a rest and have a quiet moment to read the newspapers or watch the television.

Some fathers may not even know what the children are studying, what ECAs they are involved in school, who their best friends are, what their favourite food is, who their idols are, what their hobbies are etc.

Because most mothers are home makers (especially when their children are still young), many children "see" their mothers at work (at home) and realized how hard they work to manage a household. As a result, most people feel that mothers are very noble and feel more attached to them. On the other hand, most people do not know what exactly their fathers do at work, and usually men prefer keep their emotions to themselves.

Well, that does not make fathers less "noble" than mothers.
Young people (myself included) often like to say that, "My father don't understand me."

But did we try to let our fathers understand us, or did we try to understand our father? (The same goes for our mothers too.)

I am lucky that my father is a forthcoming and chatty man. That makes it so much easier to talk to him.

Although most people like to say that as long as you care for your father (mother), everyday is Father's (Mother's) Day. No doubt that is true, but I still think that this is a special day. Some people do not like to celebrate for no reason, and this day gives us the perfect reason to throw a party for the fathers.

We should still care and show concern for our fathers everyday, but on this special day, make the fathers feel like a king, for not just any reason, but because they are fathers. What better gifts can there be?

Happy Father’s Day.