The Message

I got a message from someone today. He has a wonderful way with words and I adore the way he sees life. I find when we chat he takes my emotions from one extreme to the other. One minute in tears of sadness, the other - tears of joy.

And so he goes...

"There's a song by Neil something or whatever the lyrics go 'old man, take a look at my life I'm a lot like you were...do do doommmm do do doommmm - his guitar riff.

Anywho, I always heard that song back when I was younger. Didn't make a lot of sense to me until later. I was in my apartment in Stephenville and I walked into the bathroom. I looked into the mirror and I saw my dad. It made me stop and blink and I realized I was seeing my own reflection. But it made me realize I am my father's son.

I see a lot of him in myself. I work non-stop without breaks and almost kill myself sometimes. I remember doing that with my dad. We'd cut, stack, cut, stack, split and stack the same log pile all day. We worked until we were done. I do that now without thinking. There's other things I realize like he pushed me so hard because he saw potential.

Gabe, Mike, Sean and other people see it too. I don't most of the time. Because I don't want to. Things seem hard until you are done. Then you realize how easy it was. 'The only wrong step you can take is the one you don't take'.

I still have issues with that. I don't want to step in the wrong direction and have to fix it later. but I'm working on that"

...ah, one look in my eyes and you can tell it's true.