Unprepared - Matt Gemmell

We’re all pretending, all the time. Putting on our suits, picking up our car keys, and going forth into the world. Humming the theme from that cartoon we used to watch, and sometimes missing our mothers. We are all unprepared, just as I was for my father’s earnest question.

Every so often my dad will ask my opinion of something but usually it’s trivial, something he could’ve found the answer to himself. I think he does such for conversation and maybe sometimes when he doesn’t want to actually look for the answer himself — nothing wrong with that to me.

I’m mildly curious though, if he’ll ever ask my thoughts on something really big, something monumentally important to him.

In related news, I’ve “never laid claim to adulthood” either.

Maggie and I were laying on her bed last night and her mom remarked that she was almost as long as me. I didn’t know what to say. Often I’m dumbfounded when reality reminds me of my nine years of fatherhood.

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