I Must Finish

About 4 years ago I told my dad that I wanted to write him memoir. I sat with him on a couple of occasions and I interviewed him and took some notes. He wanted to do it so he could talk about his experiences with Fabry’s Disease. As it turns out, my dad had a pretty colorful life. Unfortunately, I did not stick with the plan and I guess I assumed that I would still have plenty of to revisit this project when I felt the need to write some more about it. Of course, I was wrong. Now he is gone and all I have is what I got the first time around and that’s not nearly enough. Well, last week I believe my dad paid me a visit and requested that I finish this. He told me that he would speak through me as I wrote but in order to do that, I needed to talk to the people closest to him. I needed to hear their stories and then allow him to translate them through me. I know how crazy this must sound, but that doesn’t really matter. What matters is that now, I have to finish. Whether it becomes a best seller or never even makes it to a publisher, I have to complete the story. I’m very excited about the journey I am about to take and meet the parts of my father I never have before. No matter what no matter how many tears I will undoubtably shed, I must finish.