The tests are back. No cancer, no diabetes, no STDs, no nothing. All in my head, stress and lack of sleep its conspirators.
For whatever reason, God chose not to bill me for a life lived recklessly. Perhaps the scare is what I needed to start living right.
I shall
Like a battered woman an Eagles fan returns to his abuser. The same words spoke by the abused in the ERs across the world, "not this time, he won't hurt me again".
And then the game ends and the season with it...the bar falls silent people shuffle away barely speaking. All is lost once again. But like the abused lover who always goes back I know that next year we will occupy the seats again and they will fail us again.
We met at the strangest of places. We connected. We shared the simultaneous loss of both of our closest companions.
We had a good run. It never would have worked, but it was fun while it lasted. We were so different, but had so much in common at the same time. I'm glad she had the guts to do what I knew all along I would never have the heart to do.
Is it better to have liked and lost than to have never liked at all? I don't know, I ask that a lot.
I can think of a score of reasons why it ended, but sometimes, I wonder which one was the coffin nail. I have no regrets, she was one of the better ones, and I know it never could have worked.
Still sometimes I wonder why.
It appears that my homecoming amounts to trading the land of snow for the land of ice. Ick, at least snow is fun to play with. Ice just plain sucks.
How do you stretch a 5 1/2 drive from KY to MD in 7 1/2...add two blizzards in the mountains of WV. I made it though.
Hopefully tomorrow's drive back to PA will be less eventful.
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