I took my father to Agora Churrascaria for Father’s Day. The evening itself was great, but the day disturbed me. Here’s why.

One of the things I noted about Father’s Day was that there were quite a few players on World of Warcraft that did not seem to care about the holiday; several of them were anticipating a raid that would run dead through the middle of dinnertime and saying things like, “Be optimistic, it’ll happen!” What’ll happen? The broken lives of society will gather together in their virtual world to pretend their dads do not exist? I realize divorce has been at a staggeringly high rate for the past several decades, but do people really lack a connection with their fathers? This makes me sad, and yet also happy that I have a connection with my father; it makes me want to go pay a visit to whoever fucked this father-child relationship up.

I find parents in general to be a touchy subject. More people have divorced parents than ones that stick together and remain in love these days. This is probably what facilitates the awful mentality that human beings are not monogamous, mate-for-life creatures. It’s rather disturbing that long-lived parrots, often with lifespans that can challenge our own, are mate-for-life, and we’re more like mate-for-convenience. That we gather together on MMORPGs over embracing the person responsible for half of our breathing moments.

Do we like to read love stories in literature because it captures a part of humanity that either has been lost or has always been fictitious? I realize the pessimistic (you guys call it “realistic,” amirite?) perceptions of marriage is that it’s archaic and originated purely over religious and/or political necessity, but Wikipedia defines marriage as, “religious, spiritual, emotional, and/or legal union.” Spiritual and emotional. Emotional.

Emotional.

You people need to learn how to stay in love so your kids can keep their fathers. Or go get your sexual organs operated on.

I find this generation is full of people that are fearful/hateful of marriage. “Act of marriage as stifling and a historic monstrosity… don’t see marriage as the joining of two lives to work together but rather the dismantling of two lives”? Seriously people? The situation has become dire.

Anyway. I enjoyed Father’s Day. Oh, and my parents are divorced, so I speak on behalf of the majority.

On another note, check out my blogging activity today: What if I was pitching a book to a literary agent?, Dictionary and More for the Internet Writer, Wicked Barbeque Chicken Tostada, Midsummer Fire Festival, Yellow Ribbon Program List of Participants Released This Week, Second Life Graduation Ceremony, Five Scholarship Providers for the Business Degree, Untitled free verse poem