The author reflects on feeling a loss of personal joy despite loving their family. They reminisce about brighter times and battle inner turmoil, believing their own value is diminishing. Writing serves as an escape and a legacy, while they grapple with life's challenges and existential thoughts about significance and worth.
Tag: Family
Honoring Sacrifice: A Personal Reflection on Motherhood
Mother's Day evokes mixed emotions. For some, it’s a painful reminder of loss, like the author's mother, who passed away in 2015, despite her struggles and sacrifices. The author also reflects on his wife’s hard work and love for their daughter, urging others to cherish their mothers, acknowledging both their humanity and flaws.
The Distortion of a Fragile Mind on Edge
It feels great to look forward to things in life, like a vacation, a promotion, a baby, a marriage, the lists goes now. Sadly, I don’t have many of these moments anymore, although yes there are those milestones likes birthdays and celebrations I look forward to, but those happen each year. I guess for myself,… Continue reading The Distortion of a Fragile Mind on Edge
Why Jesus, Not Gifts, Should Define Our Holidays
What is truly important in this time of year, the season of giving, a season of joy and for myself, the reason for the season JESUS! All of look at this time of year differently, some absolutely hate this time of year over the sear reason that it’s a time of being forced to give… Continue reading Why Jesus, Not Gifts, Should Define Our Holidays
Giving Myself the Gift of 4 more years of Life
The holidays are a time of self-reflection. What we consider to be most important. Although one could look at life and see and say I have nothing to be down about and in my opinion, there is always something we could be down about, life is not perfect after all. For myself I have my… Continue reading Giving Myself the Gift of 4 more years of Life
Rosalie Eleanor Nerio (1944 – 2024): A Life of Love, Caring, and Enduring Legacy
Rosalie Eleanor Nerio was an incredibly kind women, who I grew up with and as a child, always had a youthfulness about her. She loved to laugh and talk, she was a real chatter box who loved to talk to our late mother Linda, in which they would talk for hours and hours. Here is… Continue reading Rosalie Eleanor Nerio (1944 – 2024): A Life of Love, Caring, and Enduring Legacy
A Symptom of a Failed Human
It’s amazing how you can be anywhere and self-reflect on one’s life, someone who can look at their own failures and successes in the most unlikely places. The other day I was at an ATM, withdrawing money, when a couple stood next to me using the other ATM. I couldn’t help to overhear a young… Continue reading A Symptom of a Failed Human
Happy Father’s Day 24′
As a father of my 11-year-old daughter, I have been given the gift of parenthood and yes it’s a gift although some may not think it is. It’s the most meaningful job I have to today, next to be a husband. Changing my life forever in January 2013. OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA I often reflect on… Continue reading Happy Father’s Day 24′
My Burnt Light
Have you ever felt like you lost your light in life. Do you ever wonder is this it, is this the happiest I will feel. Or Do you feel that your light in life has burned out. I think about this a lot as I think of a time in my life when my light… Continue reading My Burnt Light
Remember The Reason For the Season!
What is truly important in this time of year, the season of giving, a season of joy and for myself, the reason for the season JESUS! All of look at this time of year differently, some absolutely hate this time of year over the sear reason that it’s a time of being forced to give… Continue reading Remember The Reason For the Season!