A Father First: How My Life Became Bigger Than Basketball by Dwyane Wade

Author:Dwyane Wade
Language: eng
Format: mobi, azw3, epub
Tags: Biography & Autobiography, Family & Relationships, Personal Memoirs, Marriage, Sports
ISBN: 9780062136183
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2012-09-04T00:00:00+00:00

SUNDAY NIGHT

APRIL 15, 2011

AT HOME IN MIAMI

IT’S LATE ON SUNDAY AFTER DINNER AND THE BOYS ARE ALL asleep.

I’m outside walking through the backyard, checking out the balmy breezes and the starry sky, appreciating being here and now.

The journey into single-parenthood that started a little over a month ago, one I’ve been piecing together with lessons from the past, has done that for me. These are the stories that have been important for me to revisit to understand the choices that I made to fight to be in my sons’ lives.

As much as I tend to block out the most painful memories, I’ve found that they’re valuable just the same. There are the times in our lives when all of us need to go back and revisit a place in the past to fully take stock of where we are in the present. I have to do that a lot in my career. The process keeps me grounded and reconnects me to who I am and what matters to me.

My preference, naturally, is to try to relive only the good and to take the best of what’s been given to me by parents, coaches, and mentors. That said, there are great lessons from the painful moments that get lost unless we have the courage to go back and dig them up.

The effort is worth it. It’s definitely helped me to know that everything along the way has happened for a reason—a truth that I embrace and hope to pass on to my kids.

And to you.

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