There are many kinds of relationships. Love, friendship, work related and family related relationships. The relationship I wanna talk about is my relationship with my dad.
My father is a good man who has raised my sisters and me very well. He was not a single parent but he did his part. He is the kind of man who cares about his kids and wants the best for them (which father doesnt?). He wants us to succeed so bad that he has resorted to lying about stuff. My dad should have been a rich man. Not because he is a hard worker but because he is an intelligent man who gets bored easily and likes to start trouble. he can never go into any partnership and not mess t up. He thinks we should look up to him and want to be like him
Back to the story.
My father thinks or has gotten himself to believe that he has achieved. I cannot tell my dad about my job because he ends up saying he did the same thing when he was at Investec.
Example- I would tell my dad that our company is doing accreditations for the 2010 soccer World cup. My dad would say and I quote" I also did the same thing at Investec"
The sad part about this is that he forces my mom to say Yes I remember. I swear she just says it to get him to shut up.
Anyway, my dad knows I'm studying towards a degree in Industrial Psychology. There goes my Dad and I quote: " You know i also did the same thing when I was your age and at work I was working in HR".
Now this only happens to me because when I asked my sisters about it they had no idea what I was talking about.
It's so bad that my dad has told my hubby all these things- I warned hubby not to talk about what he does at work, because my dad will tell him that he did the exact same thing at Investec.
Some things that my father has been/ done in his lifetime.
1- Driving Instructor
2- Freedom Fighter
3- Recruiter (I used to do recruitment)
4- Trainer ( I want to do a training course next semester)
5- investigator ( there are investigators that i work with).
I love my dad mara haai no! i have asked him to stop and he said he would. Shame he was telling about how he almost played for Pirates back in the day- i'm a pirates supporter.
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