ABSTRACT
Writing off father means releasing the what ifs of possibility; it means dropping the pretense of a relationship that continuously adds to the silence between the author and his father. The silence has helped the author to reflect on his role in the estrangement with his father and shows him his own failings as a son. The author needs to find a way to change the way his story of estrangement gets told. In the past recollections of storying his estrangement, he always tells the same story casting himself as a victim which continually lands him back in a loop involving this relational dissonance; he has to stop taking this same path. Will a new way of telling free him of this toxic relationship or will it bring a path untraveled as of yet toward hope?
