It is Father’s Day and I am traveling – this week in New York.
It’s days like this I worry that I am failing the Cat’s in the Cradle test of Fatherhood.
If you’ve never heard the song here it is:
This song really meant nothing to me until I became a Dad, and then it meant everything:
My son turned 10, just the other day
He said, “thanks for the ball, Dad, come on let’s play!
Can you teach me to throw?”
I said, “not today, I gotta a lot to do” He said, “that’s OK”
And he walked away but his smile never dimmed,
It said, “I’m gonna be like him, yeah,
you know I’m gonna be like him.”
And the cat’s in the cradle
And the silver spoon,
Little boy blue and the man in the moon
“When you coming home Dad?”
“I don’t when, but we’ll get together then, son,
You know we’ll have a good time then.”
Maybe you can imagine how the songs ends.
It is a hard listen, today.
I don’t think I am failing this test, but it is a reminder of the price of failure.
Be present. Put the tech away.
Keep trying and don’t put it off, because the time is now.
All we ever have, is now.
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