09/24/2020
Son, if you knew how many pictures in my phone were of you, you would call me crazy. One day you will tell To stop taking pictures. I definitely will not listen. 2 years I went to sleep not knowing when you would be born. When I woke up this morning two years ago, I knew you were coming today. The fact that you came out during Monday Night Football is no surprise at all. The fact that you learned the touchdown sign before you were even 1 years old just had to happen all on your own. You make every day of my life feel like I scored the game winning touchdown of the super bowl, every, single, day. You’ve taught me what unconditional love is. You’ve taught me what relentless pursuit for the world is. You’ve made me feel again. You’ve made me realize what being a parent, a father, a role model really is. It’s pressure like I’ve never felt before, which sometimes goes unspoken of, but regardless of mistakes I make or have made, you still look at me ready to play, ready to listen to , ready to call uncle or go swim at uncle pool. You don’t care if we sleep on the floor, by choice or by default. You don’t care what clothes I put on you, if any at all. You don’t care if we stay in the bath for 3 minutes or an hour, just as long as we are together. You want to do everything I do. You love stealing my chair when in reality, you can have everything I have because you are my everything. Everything I have, is yours. Without you, there would be no purpose for me in this world. For 31 years I searched for my purpose. I searched for my ability to feel and to love and to forgive and to push every day even further and every harder. Then one day god blessed me with you. You give me strength when I thought I had nothing left in the tank, you give me love when I had none left to give, you made the words “give up” and “give in” be completely removed from my vocabulary. I owe the rest of my life to you, in return for you choosing me... to be your dad. And no matter what happens in life, I’ve got your back... because I know you’ve got mine. To the better version of me, happy birthday ... to. You JVNjr ❤️