And I still did everything wrong
Talking with my other half about my future and some of my past regrets I have about the decisions I made about my future at the time brought up some seriously resentful feelings I had lingering just above the surface. I want my children to know they have every and any opportunity to look into or decide on their own future. No questions asked no matter how crazy it might sound. When I was a teenager I decided that people older than me might have my best interest at hand considering they’ve been around a lot longer than I did. What I didn’t take into consideration was my own feelings and how times were different than when my parents were young. I listened and did what I was told. Ultimately I made those decisions but for all the wrong reasons. I always liked being different and yet I didn’t fight those I cared about on what I wanted to do. A few things I wanted to try were welding, demolition, the armed services, machining (my father had his own company) and psychology. Every sing...