‘It’s not fair’, four year old Ricky shouted.
He knew the rules about bedtime at 8:00 p.m., but at that moment, all that sprung from his brain to his lips was that life is not fair…at all.
Ricky was too young to understand when grandpa was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s disease at 58. He just knew that ‘Popps’ had changed and didn’t smile much anymore.
The youngster knew something wasn’t right when, for the first time, he observed his dad crying at the breakfast table. Later, he learned that his father’s favorite Bronco…Demarius Thomas, had died suddenly at age 33. He even heard his dad say ‘that’s just not fair’.
The truth be told, life can be quite messy at times. Unexpected losses and detours from the comfortable path we envisioned confront all of us at some time.
No one skates through this life without being whacked on the side of the head with travesty or travails of some sort.
What’s fair anyway?
The great Mr. Thomas was gifted with a set of skills and a character admired by everyone he met. And then, BAM, it’s over at age thirty-three.
I know a terrific woman who’s had 24 surgeries…read a book about a baseball head groundskeeper who persevered through 45 procedures and a friend facing shoulder labrum repair and two knee replacements.
Perhaps little Ricky will learn, as he grows up, that life was never intended to be fair.
Here’s praying that DT has now crossed the ultimate goal line and that his life in
heaven is beyond anything experienced here on earth.
“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places.”
Ernest Hemingway
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