Today is Father’s Day. Today is the day you’ll see on social media floods of pictures, waves of appreciation post to say they have the best dad in the world, pictures and memories shared with love but let us not be taken away and forget those who don’t have someone to call DAD.

For every fatherless child, these are the grief, pain, guilt, or lack of all the above. The jealousy that’s comes from hearing about a father that taught you how to tie a knot or shave for the first time. These are days when it’s the easiest to feel a sense of purposelessness -

because what do you do on a day that celebrates fathers when you don’t have one? You can Watch, and feel sorry, can’t wait for the day to be done.

Or you could make the day into something else that yours, and commemorative, and beautiful. Something that has to do with family, strength and self but that leaves the whole matter of fathers behind.

A child without a father is someone who is used to being results. A piece of your family is missing, through no faults of your own. Why not then take the day and make it an occasion to treat yourself.

No matter what you choose to do this Father’s Day, no matter how you spend the day, make sure that you, fatherless child, celebrates the amazing people in your life, the people who raised you, supported you and give you goodness throughout your life including yourself.

Father’s Day, after all, it’s About paying homage to one of the most important people in your life. If that man does not exist for you, then pay homage to those who do.