Many companies and industries have been created by partnership. Two or more persons come together, bringing their resources to achieve a common goal. The many conglomerates that make up the business sphere of our world are a result of such partnerships. You and dad are partners. There is a common goal you share and you have to bring your resources together. Dad brings his wealth of experience and fatherly leadership, finance and love and you bring a determined zeal and quest to achieve. Both resources have to work together.
As already said, there is a goal dad and you want to score. Dad cannot achieve that goal without you and you cannot achieve that goal without dad. Dad is trusting that you would be a great partner.
You and dad are like a football team where every player has a role that is every important to the overall success of the team. Every player is a partner and the goal is to have the ball past the keeper into the net. You and dad are both players of a football team. The goal is to ensure the future is well safe in times net. Everything dad is doing is tailored towards ensuring you both achieve this goal. All his gifts, money and words of advice are his skill and tactics and your perceptiveness and response to his admonitions is your skill and tactics too.
Partners bear allegiance to their partnership one way or the other. Whether sleeping or active, the partners are one way or the other responsible for providing one service or the other. Certainly, you and dad are not partners in the same plane. It seems dad is more active in this partnership yet, your little role is very vital to achieving your goals. Dad knows that however tactical or skillful he is, he has to have you as a partner to achieve that goal.
No matter how achieved dad is, he would be a failure if you do not out shine him. Dad wants you to be better than him but you can’t be better if you do not understand him. To understand him, you have to collaborate with him. He will have to show you the skills and talents but you have to be around him to learn.
Partners each have a part to play. Each part nears each other to form partners. As dad plays his part, he expects you know that you have to fulfill your part too. Any partnership comes with an agreement. The partners involved would sign a deed ensuring that resources obtain from such an agreement is shared equitably based on the level of partnership and support the parties. But unlike the business partnership where the accruable resource is shared by all partners according to the investments made, the partnership between you and dad is equitably beneficial 100% on both ends. Dad wants you to benefit fully and he is sure you want him to benefit fully too.
You and dad are partners in progress. Whether you drive the progress ship or dad does, the end is that you and dad are reaching dream land harbor. Dad wants to help you get through the hurdles and he wants you to know together as partners you can get through. Every investment of time, resources you expend is no waste. As you commit yourself to reaching your goals, dad wants you to know that your input is not vain.
Partners are confident of one another’s ability. They develop trust and lean to absorb each other. Dad knows you can. There is no other person he would love to collaborate with other than you. Dad finds you the most amiable intellectual. He is confident you can reach together with him to the top of the success ladder. Dad believes and he still believes. He is sure of what and who you are and he looks ahead to picture who you’d become.
Partner bears the burdens of a failing business. Dad wants you to know he is standing by you whether you get it right or wrong. He is assuring you he is going to share your bad times as much as he wants to have good times with you.