Not everyone is best friends with his/her dad and I am one of them. My father is a great man, The breadwinner for our family and also the protector. He was there to walk me to school every morning when I was in elementary school and taught me life skills such as personal finance as I grew older. As much as my father has played what I consider as the role model father figure in my life, I have never felt connected with him.

Some say mothers and daughters click better together while fathers and sons bond better together. While this might be true, what about the one or two friend who always say "my dad is my best friend?" I can't help but always wonder "how??" What are you doing to create that relationship with him? Ask my dad what my biggest fear is and he would most likely not know. However, after years of asking myself why I don't have the relationship with my father that I see in those around me, I began to slowly understood that I wasn't fulfilling my job as a daughter. I was never willing and always reluctant to open myself up to him.

I have never told him my deepest thoughts, feelings, dreams, fears, and so much more. I have never been close with my dad. There were no deep conversations on life, growing up, adulting, dating, getting married. But having lacked all of this, I knew I love him very much. He is my dad, after all. How can you love someone so genuinely when you've never shared your all to them? But it's true. As I grew older, the concept of unconditional love became even more real to me, especially when you come into full realization of how time LITERALLY flies by.

So to my father who is currently living thousands of miles away, halfway across the globe. Happy Father's Day. You may not necessarily be my best friend, but the love I have for you surpasses that of any of my best friends'. That love is unconditional, unexplainable, and most of all, never-ending.