Today I lost it. It isnt I do on a normal basis but I lost it fully. I thought it might happen when I met Kimmies mom and told her what I had rehearsed in my head a hundred times before finally meeting the mom of the angel my girls look up to and strive to live like. It wasnt then. I was pretty sure it was going to Shellys tent. Seeing the kids she left behind as I listened to her widowed husband play live with his band before the packed crowed. I thought about how it hurt my wife to lose her co-worker, her friend the way she did. I thought maybe Id lose it when I recalled Shelly and Becca leaving work that night and how one turned left and the other turned right. How one came home to her family and how one went home to Heaven unbeknownst to her family. I held strong. But when I wandered next store to a tent I didnt know and I saw this girl that could have been my own kid... Then I met the family that wouldnt let me pay for their key chain they had made commemorating their daughter... A woman that wanted nothing more than to shake my hand and say thank you...a stranger... Yeah... It was right there. I lost it. I couldnt walk away fast enough. My wife and my softball family found me. It took their strength to bring me back. I do not care if you drink so long as you play by the rules but I have a problem with you driving afterwards. Nothing more selfish has ever existed. Call me! If I cant get you home then I will get you a cab- on me. But to look at these faces and to know they never got to say goodbye... And why... Nobody should have to deal with that. Be able to admit you CAN drive but are choosing not to. Please.
Posted on: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 01:35:04 +0000
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