MICHAEL P. Y. ASARE

For reference, I originally made this blogpost on August 10, 2018 on my blog when I received a gift presentation from one of my sons. I had to repost it, without cuts, for posterity and as a personal reminder of delayed gratification essentially.

Read the first full letter by mrpyasare to his children.

Dear Child,

I believe you are well and living your best life.

So I have not had much time to blog due to several reasons prominent among them being the wrapping up of my national service program, Senior High School Tours for peer mentoring, running NGO activities, doing pro-Bono jobs for almost everyone I know, looking at career prospects, counselling sessions, traveling et cetera. All these have left less time for relationship stuff, personal development, health checks, my dieting, daily up-keep and of course writing or blogging.

This write up is therefore pretty unique since as it was created in a rather tough time.

For the record, the motive here is not to set benchmarks for what I consider appreciative but to rather motivate and appraise a young talented African artist who has portrayed high sense of loyalty and thankfulness to me as a Mentor. Again this is not to warrant undue patronage and indulgence from ‘peers’ but to inspire.

“So on Monday, the sixth day of August, 2018, I got a clandestine call that Benson had something for me so I arranged for him to pass by the office later on. I was so elated to realize that he had a painting of me and he wanted to hand it over. Honestly I have always fancied something like that looking at my numerous struggles to edit my pictures to appear as painted. Only Pencil Sketch and Paint apps can affirm this fact! The last time I spoke to Benson was when he and his Sister wanted discuss his potentials and how best to monetize his talent. I reminisce recommending that he focused on his Senior High School education when he mentioned that he was studying visual arts. He was in the right class sort of! I further asked them to ignore the monetization drive and focus on his talent development which I think they later understood. He just completed high school and has showed appreciation for our friendship already.”

This act is rare among our generation. We are forgetting our values as young people not because we are not appreciative but because we have not been trained to consult when we are in a dilemma or ask relevant questions when confused. Our ‘mentality’ is not well nurtured to easily open up to our parents to talk of asking questions on adolescent health and reproduction in our part of the world.

The good news is that I take no antagonistic stand on remedying this mishap. I will make sure I become ‘the bestie’ to you, my unborn child. I will be there when you need to talk and I will imbibe in you, the heart of a servant – leader; to see the heart of men and to support humanity. We will talk about my indebtedness to your grandma (Rebecca Abena Konadu) and her brother Evans Fofie when you grow up. Lastly I will assume a sedentary posture to listen to your ‘nonsense’ tirelessly and we will have the best of life as family. You will approach issues with objectivity, devoid of strain and acrimonious feelings just like Daddy.

To you Benson [BKhay Pencil Art]; we will surely get to our goals in life eventually. Thanks!

And to you my lovely child, I love you so much! See you soon!!

From your Dad, PY!