Good morning everyone today is Wednesday, June 9 , 2021. My daily weather reports this week have not been that good like yesterday’s thunderstorm. I think we are in for more of that today. That was some storm I hope everyone made it through it okay. Again I did all my errands while Dario napped in the back seat, I still feel it’s the best of both worlds.
Yesterday I thought of the saying ‘youth is wasted on the young’. I felt that was a true evaluation but I also thought we were all young once and we all made mistakes, how else do we learn, we learn from those mistakes and we see we don’t do it again. However, there are some among us that keep making the same mistake. As a parent we can guide and advise but ultimately a person must decide things on their own.
When I was around 15 I thought I knew everything as we all do. In school I was doing poorly in Latin, my parents were notified if I didn’t rmprove I was in danger of failing. I laughed when they told me and said they won’t fail you for Latin. They also advised me if I failed I would be going to summer school, again I thought how foolish they were to think anyone would have to go to summer school for Latin. But guess what I failed and had to go six weeks to summer school, now I had to make the two hour trip I hated all year in the heat of the summer. So I went, you were allowed to miss three days anything more and you failed and would have to repeat the whole year. Well my grandmother was visits my aunt diown the shore and I was invited but how could go go I go now I was stuck, but I was smarter than everyone else, I took the three days and the weekend and that got me 5 days down the shore, see how ingenious and smart I was. So I went to the shore and had a great time, my cousins and I walked the boardwalk for days trying to win the record ‘come on light my fire’ by Jose Feliciano finally we did. The weekend was over and I returned to summer school. Sometime in the next week I developed a raging ear infection and I was sick and wanted to stay in bed I was so dizzy and feverish. When I turned to my mother for help, her answer was sorry buddy you used your three days now get to school and figure it out. So much for compassion. So I sat in 90 degree heat sick as a dog translating Caesar’s Gallic Wars for 4 hours a day, today I still think that was my living hell. But I was smart and knew everything, and suffered for it. But I learned I never put myself in a position like that again.
The moral here is we all make mistakes especially our children and no matter how old they are, our job as a parent is to be there to help and support them. After all what else are we here for than to help our loved ones our family. Last night at dinner out of nowhere Rocco turned and said I don’t want to be home alone I want to be with my family. I guess he’s begin getting to realize he is part of family, a place of security and love with no criticism.
Well I see some brightness through the blinds. So it is my time to wrap it up until tomorrow . Wishing you a great and fruitful day. Remember to look for happiness everywhere. Til Tomorrow!
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