i don’t celebrate father’s day

So here’s the thing, my en­tire life my fa­ther was an un­ap­proach­able demigod. Bril­liant, hand­some – all the things I wasn’t.

The prob­lem with Al­pha dogs is they will al­ways chal­lenge an­oth­er male, even their sons. 

This meant los­ing on pur­pose the mo­ment I could start win­ning. An out­right chal­lenge would mean los­ing him in the small ca­pac­i­ty our re­la­tion­ship man­i­fest­ed it­self in. 

He was #1 un­til he wasn’t. Sick­ness and age wore him far worse than any challenger. 

And all I can do now is pre­tend. Slouch when he’s near me to ap­pear short­er. Put off my ed­u­ca­tion to help him out. I am chas­ing windmills.

I love him far too much to hurt his self image. 

I don’t think he un­der­stood fa­ther­hood. Be­ing an or­phan, all he could do was present an ide­al­ized ver­sion of manhood.

And ideals don’t teach sons.

Fal­li­ble men do. Flomm is run by a fal­li­ble man. The Flom­mists out­grow him be­cause he lets them – he wants them to. He doesn’t hide his faults – in fact, he high­lights them. He teach­es art through humanity. 

Those aren’t just the qual­i­ties of a great teacher, they’re the qual­i­ties of a good man. 

For what it’s worth: Steve Mehal­lo, Hap­py Father’s/ Fa­ther Figure/ Mentor/ Professor/ Flommist/ Friend Day. 

I know Flomm and Father’s Day have an ori­gin sto­ry. With mor de­tail if you do­nate on Pa­tre­on.

It’s corny, but I fig­ure Father’s Day is dif­fi­cult for him. It’s dif­fi­cult for me too.
 

—louis her­nan­dez

Flom­mist Louis Her­dan­dez is ob­sessed with go­ing Bauhaus and be­com­ing The Ma­chine. Prefer­ably a drill press. Copy­right © 2018 Louis Hernandez.

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