My dad has always been there for me and fulfills the 10 things that are in the previous post: love your wife, spend time with your children, be a role model, understand your children, show affection, enjoy your children, eat together as a family, discipline with a gentle spirit, pray and worship together, and realize that you're a father forever.  He takes time out of his busy day to talk to me about anything from what I did today to teaching me about marketing strategies and applying them to the company that I work for.  Additionally, we have fun watching TV shows and movies together.  As a family we sit around the table laughing.  Actually, the other day we were all in the kitchen just standing there talking and laughing and I thought, I wonder how many other families would do this.

But even more than these moments throughout the day, I enjoy SCUBA diving with my dad.  It's something that we both love and have a passion for.  There's something about the underwater environment (I mean the world is composed mostly of water!) that is magical.  You can just hover above the coral and look at all of the little animals.  Additionally, you can wonder at the gigantic manta rays and whale sharks as they swim by.  It's fun to do with my dad because we have that common bond that no one can take away.  We can talk to each other about things that we saw on the dive and no one can relate to us.  It's that special time for just me and him and I enjoy every second of it!

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