Kayla Faith
2018-11-15 01:15:17
The Things You Learn
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My sister just told me about this. I had no idea... so I wrote about it and posted it on Vent. She doesn't remember what my dad said while they were in the shed the other night, all she could remember was asking him, "Wait, you knew?" Then he told her all of this...
I just learned this bit of information today and it made me cry tears of joy.
When I was 3, I got in trouble for something. I asked my stepdad, "Will I be okay?" That little phrase has stuck in his mind ever since that day and he knew from that moment on that I was going to be different. He never thought that I'd be different in a bad way, just that i wouldn't be like my two sisters. He just knew, deep inside, I would grow up to have some type of depression. He couldn't gauge when or how bad it would be, he just knew.
About 5 years ago, there was something about me that was different in a way and he picked up on it. He noticed the little things I'd say and he just knew that I liked girls. He was okay with it. No one said a word to him, he just knew. He knew before I even realized it myself. He didn't know how to explain how he knew or what specific things I said, he just knew. And he was completely okay with it. He saw something like this coming light years before it happened.
My life has never been like scenes from a movie, yet I feel like this one is. He's known things about me my whole life and I had no idea. He never said anything about any of it to me because he was okay with it and he didn't want me to think it was wrong to feel the way I do. I have a newfound love and respect for the man that has raised me since I was 2. I've taken him for granted this whole time without even knowing it. I won't do that any more.