Ok, life they say is but a game and they let it slip away! It was a line in a song in the 1970’s, by, Seals and Crofts folks. Although it was only a line in a song, it is a truthful one, is what I say. As we all know, time marches on no matter what we do, we age and eventually we pass from this earth.
As people i have loved and known have done before me, I realized that time moves very fast folks. So, I try to do somethings, I learned from my parents when young, and as I have gone through my own life. 1) I try to treat others as I wish to be treated. 2) I always respect my elders even though I am one myself. 3) I try to help others, teach others or support others, to the best of my ability especially if they are my family and friends. 4) I do not mistreat or disrespect anyone in anyway, I will walk away before I do. 5) I do not treat women like sexual objects or toys nor am I a sexist person.
Now at 69 I have accomplished many things in my life. One I survived my childhood, it’s problems and pains and aches. I blame no one for any of it, but, I still have the scars from it all. Yet it never stopped me from helping my family, or my friends, the best I could.
I helped by rebuilding the home my parents bought when I was young with my stepfather, Even though he beat me and more. I became babysitter and caregiver for my younger three siblings, when my parents weren’t home and had to work. They survived and so did I.
I overcame not being wanted by my mother and her attempts to give me away, when she said I had emotional problems. She didn’t know I had Attention Deficiet Disorder and Hyperactivity, in the 1960’s no one knew what it was. I ovre came dropping out of High School, by joining the military, and making a life of it for 16 years, before I was injuried doing so. I just continued to overcome no matter what.
I married and had two daughters and did the best I could, before their mother divorced me over lies. I married a second time and made it last 28 years, with my second wife, after the 12 years with the first. I found a way to survive it all. At 37 years old , I went back to school, college and got an Associates Degree in Hotel Management, won two awards and became a member of Aplha Beta Gamma and Thi Beta Kappa Honor Societies. I ran Hotels and Restarants too. When I could not work anymore, from my naval injuries of six herniated discs, I survived still and do today. I took care of my second wife for 16 years of our 28 year marriage and hospiced her at home in her end. Cancer is deadly folks, and she had breast cancer and passed, in the middle I survived lung cancer myself. Surrender is never an option folks, some would commit suicide and I have seen a few do so. It is not an option folks, if you think it is, seek help. Depression kills, I know it well.
So when people look at me and wonder who or what I be, I let them wonder folks, for I know who I am. I write blogs, I write stories and poems. I did 51 short stories, numerous poems and blogs as some know now. Am I done no I am not, I may write more of each, why, because I intend to use them to better people and the world if I can. That is what many others should do too.
If I can make you think, if I can make you smile, if I can make you laugh, or even in some cases cry, I feel I have accomplished something to help someone else understand life. No one has all the answers folks, not for life, health, religion, or anything else. we learn, we adjust, we adapt and we survive. We use what we have experienced and lived through, to live the next day we have. we look back and go, no not that way, this way, why, because we learned it, by going through it. Then we pass all of it on to our children and the next generations in the purest and truist fashion we know how. Why, easy folks, we want our children, our relatives and anyone we love and know to be happy, healthy and to do the best they can. Isn’t that, what life is about folks? I believe it is!
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