Real World

I was just catching up some Real World episodes I’ve missed and I just watched the one today where Danny found out his mother passed away. It was heart wrenching to watch his reaction. I went back to work (I watched it on my lunch break) and thought about the episode some more. I would be crushed, obviously, if anything happened to either parent. It’s strange because I claim to have a closer relationship to my dad, there is certainly more trust there, but on the other hand I talk to my mother far more than I talk to my father, which is strange because basically whatever I tell her is then shared with the rest of the family. It’s like I can’t help myself. I just call her up and spill everything—well, just about everything.

As far as my dad is concerned, he had a bout with prostate cancer a while back. Yeah, he is okay now, but he really struggled with it and for a while there I was very concerned about his wellbeing. I remember going to church on Father’s Day (I couldn’t be with him that year) and I just couldn’t stay. Everyone’s talks were centered on fathers. I was petrified of loosing him at that point and just couldn’t hang.