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Father's Day
Jun. 19th, 2011 06:58 pmThe Gmail "call phone" function (the little green phone under Chat) has given me helpful tip today: "Reminder: Call dad."
I interpret this to mean "Reminder: Buy ouija board" or "Remember: Call medium" or "Remember: Hold seance." This in turn is called humor to deflect pain. It reminds me of that begging-for-donations letter from my alma mater around Mother's Day talking about how important our mothers were to us, how she was the woman that inspired us to go to this college - this wasn't true for me, but how much less true would it be for people who never knew their mothers?
Ironically, Father's Day wasn't a thing for me when my father was alive (because it isn't a thing in Indonesia).
So, this is my Father's Day song:
I interpret this to mean "Reminder: Buy ouija board" or "Remember: Call medium" or "Remember: Hold seance." This in turn is called humor to deflect pain. It reminds me of that begging-for-donations letter from my alma mater around Mother's Day talking about how important our mothers were to us, how she was the woman that inspired us to go to this college - this wasn't true for me, but how much less true would it be for people who never knew their mothers?
Ironically, Father's Day wasn't a thing for me when my father was alive (because it isn't a thing in Indonesia).
So, this is my Father's Day song:
