I thought about using different headlines such as The Junky From Indiana or If I Pull Your Hair Will You Submit because I was curious about whether that would drive traffic.
Could have run with the best advice I have received or how are you buying another car but didn’t and I can’t tell you why because I am not certain.
The divorce post yesterday covered some of my favorite writing but that didn’t get much traffic either.
Don’t think I talked about the next doctor appointment in Grapevine or some of the other things I have on my mind but I have been distracted by multiple things.
Primary on that was the news a friend shared about his nephew having been killed in battle. That puts everything into perspective and reminds me that some of what I am irritated about isn’t important.
Or if it is, it is at best life changing and not life threatening.
So I keep thinking about the soldiers who are about the same age as my children or maybe younger. I keep thinking about how we ask them to protect us and how unfair some of that is.
One Life But We’re Not The Same
Maybe you don’t know me anymore or maybe you don’t know me the way you think you do. I have said it more than a few times both out loud and silently.
Said more than once I am who the man I once was and yet in some ways I am more myself than I have ever been.
Told the younger Mr. Wilner that if you find someone who is really interested in knowing you life can change and that if they can’t do that, well maybe it is time to turn your head.
Not so sure he followed it the way I intended it and not so sure he didn’t.
Double nickels is an interesting time of life. Got more than a few people telling me that I shouldn’t think of myself as being almost middle aged because I am well past it.
Got a few who say differently but always come back to the place where I acknowledge the only voice that matters is mine when it comes to that.
So I publish some of the most honest thoughts I have in places they may or may not be discovered by others and consider what I will choose to do with that.
The young may protect us from some things but there are others they cannot do anything about and that is ok.
That is ok because those are areas for us to choose to uncover and explore or ignore and hide.
Been a hell of a weekend, feels like I lived a lifetime in just a few days.
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