Leaving the Past Behind.

So I've been in Cleveland, Ohio for the past week visiting my Dad and wow, did I need to adjust my attitude towards him...so let me just start with some background...when I was two my parents divorced(nasty thing to do) but ever since then really I've kind of held a secret grudge against my Dad. I just really never took the time to sit down and evaluate my dad and who he really is on the inside...I've just looked back and told myself over and over that he was "the man who abandoned my mom and I." So I just labeled him as that person (which is really a horrible thing to do) but over the past couple of years now my father has tried harder and harder to reach out to me, and I just pushed him away. So for some reason on this trip up, my view just completely changed. For starters...whenever I used to come up here, he would be gone on a business trip...so I would come up to see him, but I really didn't get to see him; this time he was here the whole trip, so that made things better. Secondly, I could tell he was trying really hard to get to know who I really am and what I am about, I could just tell that he really wanted to get to know his son. I never really got that feeling before. This trip has made me realize that I was wrong in pushing my father away...so I guess that you could label this whole story as a reunion between a father and his son. I've just decided to leave the past behind me and forget what he did to my life, because he did hurt me there is now doubt about that....but I'm just going to let it go.