-In your life? I'd have Tara Sue (my 2nd wife) be the star. That women was an artist and a fighter. We understood each other. Peas inna pod. Than my son Jed, and Tiana (who I lived with for 10 years) in 3rd.
My parents
The few genuine friends I have
All of you on here.
Yeah, I'm going to have to do the cliche thing and say Mom and Dad.
No one will ever love me like Mom did, and I consider dad my best friend.
Quote from: Rev. Powell on December 21, 2024, 12:43:35 PMYeah, I'm going to have to do the cliche thing and say Mom and Dad.
No one will ever love me like Mom did, and I consider dad my best friend.
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Quote from: Rev. Powell on December 21, 2024, 12:43:35 PMYeah, I'm going to have to do the cliche thing and say Mom and Dad.
No one will ever love me like Mom did, and I consider dad my best friend.
I loved my Ma, but I never knew her well. about 10 out of 62 years aint much, most before the age of 8, As far as my Dad goes, I could care less.
Mom and Dad
mental illness (es)
My Mom and Dad were my guiding stars for most of my life.
My wife and my best friend are the brightest constellations in my sky; my daughters are part of my planetary core.
Quote from: indianasmith on December 21, 2024, 06:20:28 PMMy Mom and Dad were my guiding stars for most of my life.
My wife and my best friend are the brightest constellations in my sky; my daughters are part of my planetary core.
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In both the best and the worst ways, my father has been the most influential person in my life, imparting wisdom and knowledge to me, and always having my back, sometimes when no one else did, yet he also opened me up to the most costly career path I probably could ever have chosen, one I would never want for my own children, yet one he seemed somehow to have been guiding me toward from the time I was small, intent on my becoming a legacy in the field he himself entered.
Who I am today and the state of my life, good and bad, I can trace directly to his input these last forty-five years. He is the most intelligent person I have ever known, but also , as a strategist, among the most ruthless, and it says more than one would need to know about him if I remember that the most impacting advice he ever gave me came when I was nineteen and about to do an overseas job that frightened me:
"Remember, you're a predator."
How many fathers would say that to their teenage kid? But it was words he understood I needed to be told.
I love my father with all my heart but I sometimes wonder who I'd have become had I gone to live with my mother instead when my parents split up? I've paid some high prices for having known him.
Shrug.
Had one. She was someone who really 'got' me. We were friends for 15 years or so, and flirted with the idea of dating. But never took that step.
We've both got some mental issues. We've stopped talking and we've been out of each others lives the past year or so.
I was in a bad accident, was hospitalized, and we had a falling out.
She said stuff, I said stuff, and we haven't spoken since. I do miss her, and hope all ends up well for her. Maybe I'll bite the bullet and try opening the communication up again. I dunno.
But I've got some really good friends, most of whom for the past 35 years. They keep me going.