My Dreams

Jahria Zion

9/27/2012

        At one time I had a dream that my dad was going to be this big super hero and visit me at least every summer or fly me out.  He failed to at doing that, so I am going to tell you about my story with my dad and how he failed at being one.

I was seven years old when I found my dad for the first time, Andrew, my sister’s dad, was on the internet and he was reading some articles about this restaurant, and found out that my dad owns the restaurant.  My mom and I finally found his number in South Carolina and we called.  I hoped that my dad would be a good role model and get involved in my life I’m not really sure what we would do but I just wanted him to be there for me.

        Mom and I flew out to meet him for a couple of days, it was kind of weird at first because we never had met or seen each other, the first thing we did was go to his restaurant and meet his workers and get something to eat, after that we meet up with his family and we went to the beach and hung out at his house for a while and him and his family really liked me and they always wanted to play with me.
        My dream was to get to know my dad.  After I left I called him and texted him many times but he never answered.  Then I talked to him a few times and he said he was flying out to SF for a business trip, he told me that when he was up there he was going to stop by and see me in Trinidad and I was super happy to hear that but in the end he only stayed for a couple of hours.  Then I didn’t hear from him until the next summer.  He turned out to be kind of a flake because he told me to tell him the dates of when he should booked the tickets for me to fly out to see him in SC.  But right before the dates he says it’s not a good time or he didn’t buy the tickets. I was very disappointed. He promises to send me birthday and Christmas presents but he never does. He has never payed child support.  I have only seen him for about out 120 hours of my entire life.

It was depressing and disappointing.  It kind of makes me feel like nothing else will work out, if I have a dream, I will think there is a good possibility things won’t work out for me.