Dear Kim,
You say I've been living under a rock watching but never experiencing life?
Let me indulge you then. Here is my litany of tragedies:
I could have DIED in 1970 (when I was 10) when a playmate shot me through the mouth with an air rifle. My front tooth shattered. BUT it was that tooth that saved my life.
My best friend passed away in 2002 - not from suicide - but a stroke. He was 42.
I have pointed a kitchen knife at my own heart when I found out my wife had an affair. (Obviously the knife never went in!)
My biological father was never around when I needed him. BUT in 2002 I visited him - as he had prostate cancer. It was HE (not I) who cried. He passed away soon after.
My first serious girlfriend broke up with me in 1980 just before the FINAL quarter of our graduation year! She moved to Canada and married my high school classmate!
Have I ever gone hungry and without any money to buy lunch for that day? Yes. Have I ever been drunk? Yes. Have I smoked a joint? Yes. Have I taken any prohibited drug? No. Have I visited a prostitute? Guess.
My point? All the above are my "bad" memories. I say now: SO WHAT? I look back with a smirk and a toss on my head - and like Clint Eastwood say, "Go ahead, punk, make my day!"
This ONCE I have indulged you with negativity. When you're ready to MOVE FORWARD, I'll indulge you with the GOOD memories.
Perry
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> perry to me you sound as though you have lived under a rock watching but never experiencing life.I start my life over every day.i did let go but my memories bite me all the time.that doesnt mean that im always miserable though.On friday my last day of work i had a workmate who was craving drugs hold a knife to my throat and i did respond not react i just told him to go ahead and do it.You have not walked in my footprints or been inside my head so do me a favour dont make out that you have
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