Widespread in various countries of the world scattered here and there, the Father's Day changes date depending on the place where it is celebrated but certainly not its intent. They celebrate it in France, Portugal, Spain, America… and we Italians like to pay homage to ours Pope?
When you are little the Father's Day it is celebrated together with their children as if it were their own party too. Messy notes, puppets, a gift suggested in the ear by the mother, the 19 March is a pretext for stay together in the family and give time a value that does not rhyme with work. Carve out a few hours or a whole day to spend precious moments and keep them in a drawer of our memory that we will often open, when an unexpected smile emerges on the lips. It doesn't matter whether to celebrate it in a playground or in the middle of nature, the important thing is not the where but the what, or rather who: ours Pope with a superhero face.
Then, from older ones, the tradition remains in use and only the modalities change, or it may be that the father son relationship cool down a bit and that the pretext of an event is not enough to take a smiling photo of two people who are at the same time so far and so close. A Pope with whom one has never gotten along with love and agreement or that for some reason has left a void that has been filled, replaced, but not replaced. Then it's up to us to make sense of the Father's Day, and if we want to reinvest in the relationship with the parent, what better time to celebrate it?
How to celebrate Father's Day
Let's close our eyes and imagine what would make him happy, he has been doing it for many years, now we are grown up and it's up to us to do it.
This opens up infinite scenarios and we are spoiled for choice: give him a weekend away from the usual routine in a place surrounded by nature, or evoke childhood memories by returning to that beautiful place of which we still have the photos "as it was called ? ". Or step aside and make him happy together with a friend or sweet spouse to get them back together, “they should do it more often”. There Father's Day it is not Father's Day: celebrating him not only as a person, but also as a father, for the first time the birthday is already thought of, which has a completely different value.
Best wishes to you who are always there
La Father's Day it seals a pact, or rather renews it from year to year with all the changes it may entail. Being a father it does not mean giving birth to a life, but remembering that you have done it. So best wishes to all the dads, even those who are actually uncles, grandparents, more or less distant relatives but who have learned so well to be one and have given birth not to a child, but to the possibility of walking together with him hand in hand, to encourage him, support him and let him find answers from the greatest. Because if you are a father, you are a father in life, before being a father in your blood.
