Woodmiester
Recess is over
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With just a few days left before the new year I find myself looking back over the last 12 months and thinking that for once some events took place that did indeed change my life, my outlook on life and how I plan or better yet hope to continue to life my life.
Since at times some share things be it a song, poems, thoughts and desires, thought maybe some might wish to leave some things that took place this past year that changed you also. Not just minor things which can add up to a large change but something with meat, a major life altering kinda thing. I would guess if anyone wishes to share they could do it in a single post or come back as you remember them. Some of it might be sad or happy, doesn't matter. With that said here goes mine.
Started 2004 with my mother in a nursing home, then back and forth and a slow yet steadt decline till her death in May.
Along those same lines the wife which was terminal with a PBS, having an ongoing cough that finally put her in the hospital 6 days after my mother died, and then she died exactly 30 days after my mother.
Thinking that after dealing with it all that at my age life was going to run a level road with any hope of being happy gone, finding I was very wrong as someone entered into it and showed me that love can be real, caring can be real and hope is just that, hope. Feeling those feelings we have in youth come back alive and knowing it's not lust but true love and falling in love.
Doing those things that maybe in th epast you hated or even refused to do, that now you want to do them, enjoying them and looking forward to doing whatever comes ahead just to see the smile on their face.
Realizing that a parents hate towards the spouse can and does ruin and tant a childs mind, yet seeing and learning that all hope isn't lost if your willing and able to see things through, and stick with your child and remind them they are wanted and loved, even when they screw up over and over.
Watching my son keep a smile on his face and show support for others when another kid might have cried, made a comment of a scene and being so damn proud of him I could burst for holding it inside and even telling me later it was okay when I know his heart was broken.
Living in a house and seeing it becoming a home once again.
Since at times some share things be it a song, poems, thoughts and desires, thought maybe some might wish to leave some things that took place this past year that changed you also. Not just minor things which can add up to a large change but something with meat, a major life altering kinda thing. I would guess if anyone wishes to share they could do it in a single post or come back as you remember them. Some of it might be sad or happy, doesn't matter. With that said here goes mine.
Started 2004 with my mother in a nursing home, then back and forth and a slow yet steadt decline till her death in May.
Along those same lines the wife which was terminal with a PBS, having an ongoing cough that finally put her in the hospital 6 days after my mother died, and then she died exactly 30 days after my mother.
Thinking that after dealing with it all that at my age life was going to run a level road with any hope of being happy gone, finding I was very wrong as someone entered into it and showed me that love can be real, caring can be real and hope is just that, hope. Feeling those feelings we have in youth come back alive and knowing it's not lust but true love and falling in love.
Doing those things that maybe in th epast you hated or even refused to do, that now you want to do them, enjoying them and looking forward to doing whatever comes ahead just to see the smile on their face.
Realizing that a parents hate towards the spouse can and does ruin and tant a childs mind, yet seeing and learning that all hope isn't lost if your willing and able to see things through, and stick with your child and remind them they are wanted and loved, even when they screw up over and over.
Watching my son keep a smile on his face and show support for others when another kid might have cried, made a comment of a scene and being so damn proud of him I could burst for holding it inside and even telling me later it was okay when I know his heart was broken.
Living in a house and seeing it becoming a home once again.
