I love Christmas just for the fact that nobody is around...Ahhh…quiet solitude. You can never get enough of that nowadays. I had some nice things happen this week along with the bad.
I had a coversation with a plumber yesterday and I won’t use his real name to protect him. I’ll call him ” Joey”.
It’s a bad time of year for him…bad, bad memories… You see awhile back Joey’s Dad blew his own brains out with a gun. He was sick with diabetes and had been trying to shake the alchohol. He just gave up and called Joey… “Joey…You know what the combination to my safe is…I don’t think I can make it through the weekend, you take care of yourself.
Joey called his dad’s neighbor and the Jackass sluffed it off as nothing…Joey’s Dad was my age 54 and I can totally relate, but I work very hard to keep that darkness from overtaking my thoughts and my life. It’s hard. Joey told me he thinks very different with difficult people now…He say’s “You don’t know what’s going on in a persons life…Most of us have serious shit goin on, ya know?” I said “Ya Joey you’re totally right…people have a lot of shit goin on…”
Fortunately the good shit out weighs the bad at this point…I think lately some of my close ones have been a little worried about my ehh…-M- state…I’m ok…don’t worry. I have a few more feet of that plank to walk yet!
