I wrote this for your 53 birthday, and wanted to post it on that special day in order for you to read it, but you know, how lousy we are as a family in keeping surprises… We just don't know how to do that :)

Daddy,

Being on this day sends me back in time to the day when I was five years old, when you were trying to teach me how to tie my shoe laces, and I was arrogant enough to decide that I don't want to watch you and I started looking somewhere else rather than trying to learn… You smiled to me, you just knew that I was inherited your brain, and kept doing it anyway…

Being on this day sends me back in time, to the day when I was seven years old, when my sister and I entered the room, and saw the table lamp which we wanted for our room but never told you so, and you just felt that, and bought it to us… you were hiding under our studying table… happy to watch us delighted by your gift...Did you know that all what I have seen back then was that your light overshadowed the light of your gift???…

Being on this day sends me back in time when I was ten years old, when my baby sister was two years old back then, and she simply decided that she was old enough to put my mother's make up on!! She was confused when she saw the reflection of the work of art she had done on her face, she approached to you… You just looked at her, comforted her confusion with a gentle smile and a camera's flash…

Being on this day sends me back in time, when I was twelve years old, when I was sick, and you took me to the lab in order to do some tests… and helped me to feel comfortable to take my samples…That was a day that will always be detailed in my mind…

Daddy…

I really don't know, but this special day sends me back in time, to the sweetest memories, and to the toughest memories… and in each one of them you were there…With your presence, with your love, and with your support…

Daddy, you created an impossible formula that positions yourself in our lives with different roles…

 you are having you as a brother, and as a friend, but also we are having you as a discipliner and as an advisor and as a father…

You taught me all I know about how to be myself, and how to be proud of the person that I am…and to never compromise with that…  You taught me how to be serious, but also to be someone who's down-to-earth and someone whom you have fun around…You taught me how to have a price that can't be paid by anybody or anything… I learnt all that from you…

And you won't believe that, but the wrong decisions that I have made, I made them because I haven't actually paused and thought about them, as I knew if things go wrong, you will have my back… I was 110% certain about that…and I knew that you will be the shoulder that I can cry on and I knew that you will help in changing things for me if the path I have chosen led me to consequences I haven't thought about or considered  … or at least , make me feel comfortable about it...

Daddy, I know that nobody's perfect… But you are… to my mother, to my sisters and to me… Words fall short to describe how amazing you are to us…

Daddy… I was blessed and honored from the first day I was born because I was brought to this world as your daughter, and it is something that I will always cherish and be thankful for…

I really wish I could pay back 1% of the joy and happiness that you brought and still bring to my life…I really wish I could pay back 1% of the support that you have provided and still provide me with… I really wish I could pay back 1% of all the understanding that you have showed and still show to me…

Daddy, Thank you for being who you are and Thank you for being my Dad…

Maybe all I want to say is that, I love you daddy…May Allah Bless you…