Dad: A Fictional Narrative

My dad is the perfect picture of the “American Dad.” He plays football in the yard, has “a talk” with any boy before they are allowed to date me, and considers grilling a fine art; so, when he informed my family that we would be embarking on the “Good Ole American Family Road Trip” I was not even slightly surprised. Me being the travel enthusiast that I am was overjoyed at the idea of travelling to other states and experiencing things that I had not yet seen, but I was also weary at the thought of spending almost two weeks straight in a car with my family.

"You'll learn someday that sacrifices have to be made in certain situations, it was the same thing with mother."

Four noble truths exist within Buddhism – all revolving around suffering (Duhka). ‘Duhka’ is a term commonly translated as ‘suffering’ in Buddhist terminology. The term can mean ‘pain’, ‘unease’ or the ‘ultimate unsatisfactoriness’ of moments within human life (Kelly, 2008). Buddha preached that life is full of suffering, there is a cause of the suffering, it is possible to stop suffering and there is a way to extinguish suffering (Aich, 2013). Kelly (2008) describes the cause of suffering as a result of craving something missing from our lives (also translated as ‘grasping’ or ‘attachment’). An earlier description of the four noble truths was proposed by Mikulas (1978), suggesting suffering is caused by attachment, delusions or hatred and

The term repetitive strain injury is used to describe a range of painful conditions of the muscles, tendons and other soft tissues. It is mainly caused by repetitive use of part of the body. It is usually related to a task or occupation but leisure activities can also be a cause. Unlike a normal strain following a sudden injury, symptoms of RSI can persist well beyond the time it would take symptoms of a normal strain to ease.

My father was a lifeguard, but not in my lifetime, so maybe loving the ocean was in our blood. As children we grew up in Brooklyn and we would go to Riis Park for our day at the beach. One very distinct memory is of my father as he stood waist deep in the ocean with my brother and sister; the waves periodically lifted and dropped them in the water at his side. Waist deep for my father meant it was well over my head so I remained a safe distance (or so I thought) behind them. Suddenly, a wave appeared and and before I could turn and rush to the shoreline the ocean attacked. I found myself in a world of foam, pockets of air allowed me to breathe as I was tossed about like

“It's been three weeks May, don't you think that dad would tell us where we're going?” Sky asked.

One Friday night, my dad and I were sitting around the fire talking about all of grandpa’s past memories. I will never be able to forget this story. In my future, I can only hope my love story will be this good.

It was a cold December night Dad had locked me out of the house it was better than the

When I was in, I think 4th grade and I was playing around and I was called to the office and I didn’t know what for. Was it my dad or mom? Was it someone I didn’t know? Was it just my sister? I had no clue what was about to happen.

I looked up to see what was running towards me. Then i saw a werewolf with beautiful blue glowing eyes. And that werewolf started to look like a person, and that person looked like my brother.

There we are, Shelly and I, waking up early that Saturday morning to a hustle and bustle of pumping up ring tubes, packing coolers, walking to the store in the blazing heat, and preparing for the days events. Shelly, being a close childhood friend and later girlfriend of my father, Jeremy, we immediately had a close connection to one another. We had arranged to meet at Stout’s beach, this is not the actual name, but it was named that for one of my dad’s friends Jason Stout, and he was also a close childhood friend of my dads. There were so many of my dads friends who came in support of his memory. Many of these people he called friends he had known since he was a small child. The feeling I had greeting his childhood friends

My heart was so fucking heavy watching my girl lay in that coma and the love that Dmitri showed her was just everything. My girl finally had the man she deserved, I was so overjoyed when she came back to us. My mind was set on one thing planning my wedding until my period didn't show up, so here I am pissing on the fucking stick of shame for any unmarried woman. Yes, I knew Redd would take care of our child and yes we were engaged but we were not married and I don't think we are ready for a baby. But if I was pregnant we weren't leaving this island until I had his last name, shit our only family was right here with us. I came out of the bathroom after saying a quick prayer, I picked up a half sleep Lyric and rocked her in my arms, “Shanice

anyone who truly cared about me knew that. “He's a deadbeat, jackass, horrible father. If he was half of-” that's when I cut her off. “Don't talk about my father like that. I'll see you next weekend. Goodbye,” and with that I hung up. It only lead to more rage.

As I walk in, I see my dads old man blowing up what looks like the last green balloon. He’s got smoker lungs, so it looks like he took a while, since there was only one bag. I let him finished and got his inhaler for him. He looks like a grumpy old man, but once you get to know him he’s cool. He’s bald in one spot, just like my dad, and wears big dog t-shirts. He served in the Vietnam war. He’s shorter than most people.

The modern way of life…We sit for hours at work; travel to work by car or public transportation, and then sit some more at home in front of the TV eating foods loaded with calories. Lack of physical activity and over eating year after year results in muscle atrophy and fat pads on our stomach, arms, buttocks, thighs and slowly leads us to obesity. Then, one day we look at ourselves in the mirror and realize it is time for change. Of course, we want this change to happen overnight. We seem to forget we did not gain weight overnight.  So, we start conducting Spartan regime and manage to lose few kilos but this drastic change causes our body starving, slowing of our metabolism and in the end to feeling fatigue and dizziness.  This fast diets usually end in gaining more