I Don't Care About Anything

July 1, 2012

 I try and turn my Daddy's attention to this TV commercial.  "Look Daddy! I want that!" Daddy isn't interested. I called out his name for a second time "Look Daddy! look at the TV!"
"What is it, Maritza?" Daddy loses his temper fast, when you don't get to the point. "Let me finish up with Alyssia!"
"But, I want that! Look!"
I don't think I should of done, whatever it was I did, because at that moment, Daddy gently grabbed my arms, pressed them up against my sides, looked me straight in my eyes with a stare, a mission and this thick Brooklyn native accent Daddy gets when he has passion behind his words and said...
  "I don't care, Maritza. I don't care about television commercials. I don't. I JUST DON'T CARE!! I DON'T care about TV, I don't care about whatever anybody is trying to sell us. I don't care about nobody or nothing! I don't, Maritza! All I care about is you and Alyssia! Do you understand? I don't care about this house, our van, or my job. Nothing. As long as I have my two pretty little girls, I don't need anything else! everything else is....-I don't care" Alyssia stays quiet when Daddy speaks with such ferocity. I don't, so I said "You care about your TV in the living room, Daddy"
"No. I don't, Maritza"
" Yea, you do. You sit in front of it and do your typing"
"Yes I do, but that's not as important as you two.
"You still love it"...
"It's an inanimate object, Maritza. I can do without it. I won't be able to handle being without you or Alyssia"
"Oh!.......I love you, Daddy"
" I love you too, Daddy"
"I love you Maritza and I love you too, Alyssia."