A Role Model

When I think of a role model, I first try to think about my personal definition of what a role model means. In doing that, I look at the word model and initially think of someone that I would like to model myself after, whether it be in my personality, accomplishments, or behavior in a social atmosphere. Then to think about the word role, or roles, I think about what that person might do which makes me want to model myself after him. With that said, ever since my years in high school, my father has always been the first person to come to mind when thinking of my role model.

My father has always joked with my sister and me when we would go out and spend his money, “I don’t care what you do with my money. You are just spending your inheritance.” Perhaps, the joke is not as funny to someone outside my family, however for someone who knows my father, that kind of sentence, describes my father in many ways. Throughout my entire childhood and up into college, my father has always been one to make sure I have more opportunities than he ever did, and I have more chances to succeed than he ever thought about as a child. Money has never meant much to my father as something to use for him, the most he ever thinks about money is when my sister or I need something, which describes his quote about inheritance. Money that he makes is for his children, just as he expects us to use our money for our children. Which made him losing his job so sad for him and our family, not necessarily economically, but the idea of how much he could give to us.