Time we know never stops, it continues to tick away whether we are here or not. Time brings with it knowledge, experience and new inventions and innovations also. Time mostly brings new human beings to a planet already over populated really, yet still it maintains. Amazing isn’t it really?
Some years ago, 1990 to be precise, my step-father, who I never called anything else then Dad, died of cancer. He lived a short life in comparison to most men of his time period as did my mother, who followed him one year and a day later to her own grave. We put the two of them together for eternity after their deaths of course.
Anyway, Dad prior to his death made sense about time to me one day before he died, in his own unique way. It was the summer of 1990 and we were watching Red Sox Baseball in his bedroom as he lay in bed sick as hell. We were chatting as the game played in the background and I remember turning and staring at him for a bit as he watched and growing sad, knowing he would one day soon be gone.
He caught me staring and looking, and he looked back finally, he told me he said son, I have two things to say to you. I listened carefully as he spoke, his word not as strong as they once were but still as powerful as a man’s could be. He said first and foremost I want to thank you for the present you gave me for Father’s Day so many years before, 1971 20 years ago. That lazy-boy recliner I sat in so many years, and would today if i could, I watched ball games from it, movies and more and even slept in it at times. I smiled and told him he was welcome for all he did for me. Then he looked at me and said one more thing I want to tell you.
I listened more, as he told me, Son he said, a man plants a seed, but as we both know he doesn’t always stay to nurture and grow it. So I took over for your real father and raised you. Again I thanked him, than he said, Son one day soon I shall be gone and the minutes will turn to hours, the hours to days and the days to weeks then months and years. Don’t cry for me, or waste your time and have no fears. Time waits for no one is what he said and it shall go on and on long after man is gone. So do me a favor son, live a life of good and have fun, do want you really want and get it done. I smiled back at him and just watched him breathe slowly that day.
Then came October 1990 and his sudden death from cancer. As we gathered for his wake, and after at home, people I had not seen for decades came out of the past. They gathered at our home to bid him goodbye. We all sat and talked of him and what we loved most about him as a man. And I told them all what he said of time, it is too short for the human mind. But it will go on and on forever more, and it will be here long after we are all gone, so live full, live happy and have fun, before you know it life shall be done.
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