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Originally Posted by Lonewolf Ed
My favorite Chiefs memory is the Monday Night game, Montana and Elway. Watching it still gives me chills.
My biggest regret is the thought that my parents will have to bury me. I lost my best friend when I was not yet 13 and saw the devastation that caused his family. My mom is 92 and my dad is 86. I don't know how long they can manage if I am not here.
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Man, don't feel guilty for getting cancer. There is a whole lot of not a damn thing you could have done about it. Sorrow for having to have your parents bury you, sure. But don't dwell and regret things outside of your control.
I struggled with that a bit (to a far less extent). In 2012 my dad fell off the roof of our shop. He ended up with "just" a broken ass leg, but it really slowed him down, and I think had a more profound effect on his life than anybody else knows about. Anyway, if somebody needs to be on the roof it is me, not him. But I didn't know he was up there. I'd have gladly let him drive the sprayer if I'd have known about it, but it wasn't in the cards and I couldn't have done anything about it.
Hell of it is that even though i wished it was me up there, if I'd have started sliding, I'd have tried harder to arrest the fall and ended up with far worse than he did. Probably dead but most certainly paralyzed.