Thanks for sharing this. It got me thinking back to my own father. (I'm an old man myself now and he's been deceased for several decades.) There's a long story I could share regarding my relationship with my father. But the story would be too complicated to write out in any meaningful way. So I'll spare you that.

I never really thought about, nor understood, the dream my father had for his own life as well as the anticipations I think he had for the part I would play in it. But recently I've been watching some free old films on YouTube. And in the father / son relationships I've seen in some of those old films I think I perceive what my father's dream was about, in what way I must have been such a disappointment to him, and how what my father did in an effort to pursue his dream contributed to the train wreck I made of my own life... a realization that, in my case, came entirely too late.