Get in touch with my dad

Just written my letter; I was going to think and plan and probably think again, about all the things I need to say and how to say it. But I in the end I think it’s more important to just say ‘hi’ and get in touch now rather than wait and wait some more until I have the most perfect letter – that’s was the kind of thinking that has delayed this for so long already. I can say all the other stuff next time if I still need to.

Will post it in the morning.

how can it be nearly seven years since I last saw him? No point in going into detail, but suffice to say there are a lot better dads out there (and many worse too). He’s not a bad person he’s just self-centred.

He has tried to get in touch a few times by letter over recent years and I meant to reply but never got round to it. I have just found a letter he wrote a couple of years ago and it made me really sad to think that I have become as bad as he is by just ‘not getting round to replying’. Seeing his letter and thinking how he must have felt when I never replied – yet again – has given me a bit of a shock and I need to do something about this because one day it will be too late.

I am going to write a letter to him by 26th July (it would be sooner but this is going to take some thinking about).

I haven’t seen him for about 10 years.. We wrote to each other for a while, and then stopped… I would like to get in touch with him again before it’s too late and I end up regretting it