If we look hard enough, we should be able to find something special in each day. No matter how bad things seem to be going - you just lost your job, you smashed your car against a cow crossing the road, your girlfriend left you for that rich hunk, people discovered you wear a toupee - there is ALWAYS something good to be found. You just have to look for it.
My Special Thing for today wasn't very hard to find. I spent the evening, just a brief 2 hours with my dad, playing badminton at Dewan Badminton SS24, Taman Megah. Just a short moment made this otherwise bland day a day to remember.
Dad and i have never been particularly close; i'm told that this is because dad and grandad were never particularly close either. My relationship with dad is a victim of my father's past and upbringing, two factors completely beyond my control. So for today to happen the way it did was really special. We joked on the courts. We played against each other in one game (he beat me with a series of wicked drop shots), we played together as a pair for a doubles match (we won), and he cheered me on when i was playing my third game against some of the blokes. We checked out the babes together, dad commenting on one's long legs, i mentioned something about how gravity would keep another well endowed lady from successful jump smashes. It was an amazing experience, and something that i always envisioned i would do someday with my own kids because i could hardly imagine it would ever happen between my dad and i.
Its an irony for this to happen now, just when he is about to leave soon with the rest of the family to Australia. I wish we had more time.
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