Dear Dad,

I just wanted to write you to tell you that life is good. Actually, my life feels like a miracle - because I’m truly living my dream.

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Maybe you aren’t even aware of it, but I see you and your examples for a life well lived. Rising to life challenges with tenacity and grace, unshaken. Holding love and family above everything. Enjoying the little things.

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Thank you for teaching me me that money isn’t as important as people might think, more of just a means to an end. I know now that I need to work hard to achieve fulfilment in life but the real things that bring us happiness are never the material.

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There are unending ways a child can be guided by their parents. I feel lucky because not all of them wish liberty for their offspring, though they might say otherwise. You taught me that I could be anything I wanted to be. You also said you would be proud of me, whatever I chose. It has been the greatest gift.

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My life is an incredibly exciting journey - and a modern one. Who would have thought a girl from the country would grow to travel the world and run a digital business? The most profound lesson you have taught me is that I should never be limited by my own mind - or someone else’s ideas of what it was to be a woman.

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I’m so grateful for all your smiling encouragement, your unwavering love and support, for being a man of today.

 

All my love,

 

Zanita xo

This post was created in collaboration with Hugo Boss Bottled fragrance and is dedicated to my Dad, Murray Whittington for Father’s Day.