Involved
Before we’d had children, Dr. Deb and I had heard a speaker
talking about the passage of time. He’d said, “People who’ve raised kids will
tell you they’re two, they’re twelve, they’re gone.”
The little girl who danced with me in the hardware store was
working on a Ph.D. The little boy who
couldn’t wait to show his grandfather the projects he’d built was studying to
be an engineer. Neither of my children
had waited for me to be ready for them to grow up.
“Ready or not, life moves forward,” I said to myself. “The
best I can do is stay involved, not disappearing into work, TV, an addiction,
or anything else that pulls me away from my loved ones’ lives.”
Today I will stay involved.
Summer with the Slug
Rats © 2020 by Ken Montrose
Summer with the Slug
Rats is a work of fiction. Any similarity between the characters and anyone
you might know is purely coincidental.
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