Tomorrow is the start of 2011. Craziness. It doesn't seem like that long ago I was figuring out how old I would be in the year 2000, let alone this year I'll turn 26. My brother Nathanael called me this evening asking me if I could come get him so he could spend the night up at our house. So, I went down to Massillon to pick him up, it's about 20-25 minutes south of my house. As soon as I picked him up, he told me he had kissed a girl for the first time in his life tonight. He confessed to his girlfriend that he has insecurity issues because the last girl he liked he felt like she never thought he was good enough for her. I told him that he needed to stop right there. I'm 8 years older than he is, and I have never been good enough for any guy, so I didn't want to hear it from him. :-) Don't worry, I know it's not that I'm not good enough, it's just not been right yet.
Nathanael and I talked about that too. Right and wrong. We're both very responsible people. Everyone around us trusts us to always do the right thing. We don't make poor life decisions. He was telling me, that he half way wants to make one, just so that he could learn from it. I told him that the problem with that philosophy is that chances are the damage that will be done to him by making a poor life decision will not be limited to just him. Poor life decisions don't usually just effect the individual, but those around them as well.
I do feel his pain though. When you see everyone else around you getting to make poor life decisions it makes you wish you could have that freedom also. I know I can't because I am responsible for how my actions effect those around me. I never want to knowingly allow myself to damage or potentially damage another human being.
Those are the thoughts of this evening. I wish you well in the year that is on hand. BE.
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