Bindi Puts on a Happy Face for Dad

Bindi Irwin has been criticized a bit about her constant ‘happy’ appearance, since the passing of her dad, Steve Irwin. Some say that it’s not right for a young child to be so happy, only months after losing her father, however, Bindi says that she’s only happy and smiling, because it’s what her dad would have wanted.

“He hated it when I cried…If my pet goldfish died, he cried with me, so I’m trying really hard not to make him really sad that I’m sad. He would be so happy that I’m happy.”

“When I look back at all the memories, really that’s what Daddy wanted the most for me. Some people might think, ‘Oh my word she’s happy, how can that be’, but everyone has a choice of being happy or sad.”

Even though she appears happy when out in the public eye, Bindi says that she’s still struggling to cope with her loss, and is finding it even harder coming up to Christmas.

“Sometimes it’s frustrating because I can really feel that he’s here, but I can’t see him. They say time makes things easier but no one tells you how you can miss someone even more every single day.”

“Sometimes it’s really sad and I have to cry a little bit but I really think, I really believe, he’s just in another world. Sometimes I cry and cry but then I just think ‘It’s happened and you can’t do anything about it, he’s not hurt, he’s in a great place’.”

Bindi says that even though she’s going to find it extremely hard to cope for the first Christmas without her father, she will draw on the happy memories of her last Christmas with him in order to help her stay happy.

“[Last Christmas] Santa left all the presents on top of our roof because our chimney was much too small for him to climb down it. So my Dad and I had to get a ladder and climb up the roof. It was just me and him - Mummy was thinking about it but then didn’t want to, and (baby brother) Bob wanted to but he was a safety hazard.”

“It was so nice up there. He gave me a big bicycle. It was really nice - it was the best Christmas.”

“On Christmas Day I will be raising my orange juice to him I will be saying ‘thank you very much and please have a happy Christmas too’.” [Source]

Merry Christmas to Bindi and the Irwin family, from all at Staralicious!!!

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