Write about a time everything changed in the
blink of an eye.
At first glance, I came up with quite a list: my
health, Jacque’s (my sister-in-law) death, my Dad’s death, Jerry going to Iraq,
and mental illness. Why is it that the
first thing that come to mind are bad things? I should include good things: marriage, birth
of my children, graduating from college, joining the military, and meeting
certain people. After 50 years of
living, how do I pick just one? I also
started complicating the idea with the thought that some of these experiences
we prepared for so the change isn’t really all that quick. I need to not think so much.
For me, the most profound experience was the
death of my dad. He went into the hospital
just before Father’s Day in 2016. I had
no doubts the doctors would get him up and running again. We had more camping, visiting, and fishing to
do. More long conversations about
gardening, life, books, and football.
As the summer progressed, he didn’t get better. In July and August, he went from bad to
worse. I made two emergency trips home. The last trip was to say good-bye. And just like that, my world changed, in the
blink of an eye.
With two years behind me since this life
altering experience, that time has grown fuzzy.
I feel like it has been forever since I have seen him. However, I feel his presence every day. I miss him every day. I will never be the same person. My dad is gone. How could I be the same person?
Someday, hopefully in the very far future, I
will be with him again, in the blink of an eye.
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