Father's Day

Sun, Jun15th. It's Father's day in the U.S. Not in Brazil, that's only in August. I never liked This or That Day. It always seemed so artificial. You prepared a gift in school, the same one that all parents will receive, and tell them you love them. I never felt I needed that silly scarf or keychain to show that I loved them.

One of my strongest memories with my father was him pleading to this early teenager to go to a church service on Father's Day, and I refusing it so that I could stay in our 1990's living room PC (personal computer, a desktop) doing God knows what. Most importantly, I argued that I didn't need to join my mom, my younger brother and him at church to show him that I loved him.

He insisted, the argument got more intense, my mom appeased the situation and in the end they left for church without me. Upon their return, my mom told me that my dad was disappointed that I didn't go. Which made me very upset, because I didn't want to disappoint my father.

Little budding communicator me, I wrote a card to my father and added a flower to it, maybe a rose, maybe something that someone else had just brought from the church. I gave it to him and apologized, the though of making my dad sad looming heavily right into my heart.

My mom is the opposite when it came to celebratory Days. Her famous saying is that Mother's Day is everyday and the day when it's celebrated is just commerce's day. She truly doesn't care. We resorted to wishing her Happy Commerce Day.

My father is the O.G founder of EntryPoint. Perhaps it was Entry Point. An Electronic Engineer by trade, he used this common programing term to launch his own company, aftee the job market deemed a 40+ year-old too old for a full-time hire.

He idn't have enouh time to make his company take off, due to severe illmess in the wake of a stroke at 44. But the legacy remained, and the name just slipped like a glove into the plans of this daghter that's going into Acupuncutre post her 40s. The dream is not over. As a matter of fact, it never lived more intensely through me, an through this new inarnation of EntryPoint. Welcome home, dad. We're DOING IT! 🥳 Happy Father's Day to all fathers, father-figures, godfathers, the father that lives in you and all of those who have a special fatherly presence in your lives!