Have you ever gotten into a conversation with someone, really, really into it, and was interrupted, and the other person left or the conversation was dropped, and you sat and wondered, what was "the rest of the story?"
Or, started listening to a really good song on the radio, then lost the station, or had to get out of the car? And, left hanging? Or even, waited a long, long time for something, movie tickets even, and the big day came, and something happened, and you couldn't go?
Sometimes, despite our best intentions, life is a drag. Last year at this time we were talking about going to see "Mark Twain Tonight", starring Hal Holbrooke, at a community theater near our town. Now, I've been a Mark Twain fan for a long, long time. And, I'd seen enough of this show, bits and pieces here, and there, to know it was as much like the original production Twain himself did years ago as I was likely to ever get to attend.
The day arrived. A sitter was coming over to spend the evening with the kids. The tickets had been bought and paid for. And, she stumbled. That is to say, my wife's knee buckled, and she fell, breaking not only her leg, but also her ankle. After a few hours in the emergency room, it was obvious she wasn't going anywhere anytime soon, so I left and took the kids home, picked up the sitter, and came back to the hospital. They decided they needed to do surgery, to the point of putting in screws and pins and plates and all kinds of fun stuff.
She said, "Go ahead and go..." And I said, "What, are you crazy?" She came home a couple of days later. I still haven't seen Twain Tonight, but it's okay. After a few months she has healed and is up and around fairly well.
There are little disappointments every day in our lives. That half-finished story, that your friend never finished, the movie whose ending you may never know, the last half of that peanut butter and grape jelly sandwich, that ended up on the floor, when you were still hungry for it.
Sometimes, I start to
No comments:
Post a Comment