I love you Dad

My father was an extraordinary man who only got to live for forty five years of his life.  His departure had saddened me and my entire family, but our lives went on and it has already been eighteen years since he passed away on November 5, 1993. His absence makes me feel that my fourteen years of life with my father was longer and more fulfilled than my past eighteen years of my life without him.  It took me really long time to believe that it was simply his time to depart.  Steve Jobs beautifully stated in the commencement speech at Stanford in 2005, we will all die one day, and we can’t get away from the death.  In Buddha’s principle teaching is our desire is the cause of our suffering.  When we lose someone we love, it hurts and our desire to be that person causes great emotional even physical pain. Amazingly, my love and respect for my father still remains in me strongly today.  That made me go on to live my life with the dignity my father had shown me by living his own life. I would like to take this special day to remember my incredible father who shaped me to whom I am today.  I miss you, Dad.  But I know that you continue to watch over me from the heaven.