Sorry that it has been a while since I blogged. I know that all 9 of my loyal readers have missed me (It is 5 of ya’ll, right? I get to count the one with at 4 separate personalities as 4 separate people, right? My Blog, My rules!!!!!)
"So, D.A.D., how has life been treating you" you may be asking. Or you may not.
Anyway…..On to my point.
I have a terminal case of verbal diarrhea. I talk, shit comes out.
Smelly shit. Bad shit. Shit that burns. Shit I wish I could take back.
The worst part is, a lot of times I don’t even realize that I have done it. But once again I have.
And once again I have hurt the one closest to me with the shit.
I do not know why I do it. I guess that has always been a question. Why do we hurt the ones we love the most? Or is it just me. I am tired of hurting my loved ones. I am even more tired of hurting da Missus.
There is an old parable that goes something like this. There once was a little boy who had a bad temper. His father gave him a bag of nails and told him that every time he lost his temper, he must hammer a nail into the back of the fence. The first day the boy had driven 37 nails into the fence. Over the next few weeks, as he learned to control his anger, the number of nails hammered daily gradually dwindled down. He discovered it was easier to hold his temper than to drive those nails into the fence. Finally the day came when the boy didn’t lose his temper at all. He told his father about it and the father suggested that the boy now pull out one nail for each day that he was able to hold his temper. The days passed and the young boy was finally able to tell his father that all the nails were gone. The father took his son by the hand and led him to the fence. He said, "You have done well, my son, but look at the holes in the fence. The fence will never be the same. When you say things in anger, they leave a scar just like this one. You can put a knife in a man and draw it out. It won’t matter how many times you say I’m sorry, the wound is still there."
I am driving nails and not knowing it. I may be removing nail, but how many holes can she take?
Why do I keep driving nails?
Why?