Getting looked up to can give a very warm feeling in your heart. Especially if it’s someone that you look up to as well. This man is my father and we both look up to each other. The bond between a son and his father is unbelievable and what’s even more fantastic is that he wasn’t always there to play a role in my early life. But in the long run I’ve learned a lot from my father and vice versa.

The most knowledgeable thing I have ever learned from my dad is how to survive on my own. He taught me many life skills that I will need to have in order to succeed on my own. The one I picked up on the most is the ability to do my own work on my car. I came just as natural to me as swimming is for fish. Through all of my experiences I have had I have gained the skills to change a car motor, a transmission, and just about everything else on the car. And not only have I learned to change them I also know how to do maintenance on mainly the whole car. I bet I can disassemble a whole car and put it back together with my eyes closed. It’s a good thing to learn from your dad but even a better thing for your father to learn from you.

Even though my father is a pretty smart man I like to pride myself on being just a tad bit smarter. I like to say he’s more street smart and I’m more book smart. If he can’t figure out a math problem he comes to me. This is because I’m like a human calculator and probably because my dad hasn’t had a math class for over 25 years. I’ve also taught him patience. He is the type of guy who wants everything done in half the suggested time. He will try and cook minute rice in half a minute, that’s just the way he is. And if it wasn’t for me “his” projects (which is just as equally my project) would turn out just as worse as if a dog did it. So I like to pride myself with that accomplishment.

It’s a good thing for a son to learn from his dad but just as equally as good as a dad learning from his son. We both have an inseparable bond and wouldn’t know what to do without each other. He is always calling me his “right hand man” and I take much pride in that.