Day 3 - Your ParentsDear Parents
I think this is going to be one of those letters where I can't adequately express my emotions and feelings for you, but here's my try. Thank you for bringing me into this world and giving me my life. Thank you for giving me the most wonderful upbringing and home that a person could ask for. Thank you for hardly ever fighting in front of us, but for also making sure that we knew you were imperfect people too. Thank you for giving me two amazing siblings, even if they do make me crazy sometimes. Thank you for not giving me everything I wanted, but everything I needed. Thank you for never holding me back in life and for letting me do my thing. Thank you for sending me to a good school and encouraging my education. Thank you for never pressuring me to do what I didn't want to. Thank you for taking us on holidays and let us experience things you never did at our age. Thank you for your senses of humour and never being dull. Thank you for being open and honest with us and always treating us our age. Thank you for never seeing the world as black and white. Thank you for never enforcing your beliefs on us. Thank you for taking us to church and sending us to a Christian school. Thank you for your relationships with Jesus. Thank you for encouraging healthy relationships in our lives. Thank you for giving me solid role models and surrounding me with amazing women and men. Thank you for letting me be me. Thank you for sending Tom & I to Kids Quest all those years ago. Thank you for letting me show my creative side, even if you didn't always understand. Thank your buying me condoms and pregnancy tests for my year 11 artworks. Thank you for not forcing me to clean my own room. Thank you for packing me a full medical kit when I went to Samoa. Thank you for those times when you pay my phone bill. Thank you for letting me get my piercings. Thank you for trusting me. Thank you for encouraging me to attend the university I ended up choosing. Thank you for understanding when I need to talk to someone else. Thank you for everything you've ever done for me, especially those things I didn't understand at the time. Thank you, I love you.
Sincerely, Eleanor.
Until next time fellow humans....