Please accept my condolences on the passing of your father. You inherited his ability to captivate but you use a different medium, words not spoken but arranged in just such a way.
Congratulations on your painting mastery for the reality show, what a difficult time to rise to the occasion and showcase your artistry.
My daughter recently told me she needed me not to communicate with her for a while while she works on some things. Told me she loved me and all that but just needed space. My wife died 5 years ago, about 18 months after a diagnosis of stage 4 lung cancer. Life happens fast. I have many regrets about those 18 months. I think I did a lot of things right, but also that I could've done some things better. Life's too short, and time's too precious to get priorities wrong.
Thanks! Actually, reading your posts about awful situations in life has inspired me to write up my other traumatic stories. It's sort of restorative catharsis... and a topic I usually don't write about, as a children's book author.
Hi, thank you for saying all that. Regret is one of the most difficult emotions to process, and the only thing that has helped me so far is being open about it, trying to empathize with the past self who made this decision while still recognizing that it was a mistake. My father made a lot of those, too.
I cried at the end of this. Thank you.
this is beautiful
Please accept my condolences on the passing of your father. You inherited his ability to captivate but you use a different medium, words not spoken but arranged in just such a way.
Congratulations on your painting mastery for the reality show, what a difficult time to rise to the occasion and showcase your artistry.
The nipples detail kills me.... love you friend <3
Heartwrenchingly beautiful. I thoroughly enjoyed your story (in a sad way) and I am glad you could be there with your father in the very end.
Heartbreaking and beautiful
Enjoyed this a lot.
My daughter recently told me she needed me not to communicate with her for a while while she works on some things. Told me she loved me and all that but just needed space. My wife died 5 years ago, about 18 months after a diagnosis of stage 4 lung cancer. Life happens fast. I have many regrets about those 18 months. I think I did a lot of things right, but also that I could've done some things better. Life's too short, and time's too precious to get priorities wrong.
What a painful experience that must have been... winning & dying.
I had my brother die a while back in a faraway hospice... hurts like crazy and nothing can be done to lessen it. That's life, as they say.
But to have a gameshow running along on top of the pains of a life ending is a real topper!
Yes, a strange experience to be sure! But death is always strange, never normal, despite how inevitable it may be. I'm sorry for your loss.
Thanks! Actually, reading your posts about awful situations in life has inspired me to write up my other traumatic stories. It's sort of restorative catharsis... and a topic I usually don't write about, as a children's book author.
Hi, thank you for saying all that. Regret is one of the most difficult emotions to process, and the only thing that has helped me so far is being open about it, trying to empathize with the past self who made this decision while still recognizing that it was a mistake. My father made a lot of those, too.
I'm sorry you also lost your father recently, and I appreciate your insights on the impossibility of perfectly orchestrating a death.
I also want to note that I'm not unhappy now! I accept the way that things turned out. I just wanted to share openly what I went through.