Stories…

Life is a list of tales…stories….

The life you lived might be amazing for you, boring to another…boring to you, amazing to another…

How has my life been?

A manblog reader touched base with me a couple weeks ago. A person I have never met, they stumbled on the manblog and thought they would touch base.

This person I have never met shared with me that they had been through a terrible situation. A companion of theirs had passed…they were the first to find the situation….and, being a cop, had to put aside their personal emotions to deal with the situation.

I try to be empathetic. I really put in the effort to try to connect with the emotional response to the feelings of the people that are involved in life….theirs and mine.

It is hard to put myself in that space…impossible really. Sure, I have experience loss, but I haven’t been forced to command the investigation…to look deep into the facts. I have been in a space of total loss…the space where you would dig a hole and sleep in it….but that isn’t the space this person was in. They had a responsibility in that space. The distance between our spaces….as terrible as mine was….is a universe….imo…

They might not agree. Their life has been built on that responsibility….every other day…managing some loss, big or small.

I appreciate a stranger contacting me and offering me a chance to try to understand their space. I can’t, but I can think about it for weeks, trying to empathize…which is growth.

There is a new participant in the manblog, Suds. Suds has a row to hoe…we shall see,’

Charlotte received another offer to play university hockey today…I was gifted with being able to share that without abuse. I haven’t know pride in my own child without having to listen to the negatives…her faults.

Who knew life could be this good?

The Quote of the Day

Long live living if living can be this.

living can be this…..and it will be