Would always be my dad's line. He'd say it to me whenever I would have any issues with car accidents, or a lost phone, or just plain old life. Of course, I'd hear a lecture about my carelessness, how money doesn't grow on trees, how I could have avoided this. But when he would see me getting increasingly worried, he would stop and put his hands on my hands, look into my eyes, and say, "kiddo, don't you worry. I got this" He always "got this". Papa, as I call him, had a solution to most problems. Even he turned his back on me for a couple of years as a form of punishment, we slowly bonded again once I moved out of their home.
Papa and dadaji (grandfather) were my two best friends. Papa would tell me stories when I was two- stories that helped me fall asleep. I had a difficult time sleeping as a child, but it was even more difficult when he would be out on business trips. I love to think that he can fix everything- I wish I could go to him right now, tell him my problems, and then just be reassured that it would be taken care of. I wish for impossible things sometimes. But then again, impossible is an opinion, not a fact.
My papa inspires me to be that person who loved ones could depend on whenever they need anything. I don't turn my back on people who need something from me.
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