Nov. 10th, 2011
Here's a story:
Nov. 10th, 2011 09:13 pm( It's quick and almost painless, I promise )
So here's my thing. I can still hear her asking me that question in my mind. It stuck with me. There was a sound of momentary desperation in her voice when she uttered it that pinged a nerve within me. We go through life with people around us making stupid decisions. Sometimes we speak up, and sometimes we let them fall down on their own, and sometimes we do both - you can always tell them "I told you so" afterwards. There's a small part of me that wonders what my answer to her query would have been. Why did I let her do it? Why didn't I stop her? Why didn't I talk to her until I was blue in the face that this was Bad Idea #357?
I wonder if she would have listened.
So here's my thing. I can still hear her asking me that question in my mind. It stuck with me. There was a sound of momentary desperation in her voice when she uttered it that pinged a nerve within me. We go through life with people around us making stupid decisions. Sometimes we speak up, and sometimes we let them fall down on their own, and sometimes we do both - you can always tell them "I told you so" afterwards. There's a small part of me that wonders what my answer to her query would have been. Why did I let her do it? Why didn't I stop her? Why didn't I talk to her until I was blue in the face that this was Bad Idea #357?
I wonder if she would have listened.