Originally Posted by
markm
I think it's saved my life.. or saved me from snapping or doing something counter productive. There's been times when EVERY other thing is going wrong... Shitty Job, Nutbag Wife, etc.... and we head out and kill it for two hours. Huge stress relief.
Best of all, I'm betting it will be some of the greatest moments of your son's life as well. Now that he's gone, some of the fondest memories I have of my father are little things that most would think insignificant at the time.
Watching our favorite sci fi shows (Battlestar Galactica, Buck Rogers, The Night Stalker, In Search Of..., etc.), truly enjoying pizza in a way nobody else could quite relate to, making chocolate malts in the blender and things like that are as important as any of the things he might have given me as a gift. I wish I could trade a few of the "things" for "more time."
He had his faults, failures and regrets but if I could get a "do over" I wouldn't want any other father, I'd only want to help him have fewer failures and regrets. I could live with all his faults.
It's hard to be a ACLU hating, philosophically Libertarian, socially liberal, fiscally conservative, scientifically grounded, agnostic, porn admiring gun owner who believes in self determination.
Chuck, we miss ya man.
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