The values of life that this man had found, followed, and it’d, served him well, translated…
That day my son took us all to the wholesales marts, and we’d gone out to dine together. As we were eating, I’d mentioned on how I’d heard on the news, that a certain American president had passed away, my son immediately corrected me, “it’s not the president, it was President Reagan’s wife, Nancy, she’d died two days ago”. I’d said, “ah, I must’ve, heard it wrong then”.
When we were having desserts, everybody started talking about their favorite movies. I’d recalled how I’d loved “It’d Happened One Night”, and told the kids, that the movie was really good, especially the actor and actress, Clark Gable and Jane Wyman, that, there’s amazing thing about it is they’d both put on their best performances, that Jane Wyman had even, won an Academy Award! Then, I’d gone home, checked online, and found, that I’d ranted endlessly on, and got it wrong—the winner of the Oscar was Lauren Bacall! I’d immediately called up my son, told him I’d gotten it wrong, that it wasn’t Jane Wyman who’d won, that it was Lauren Bacall! He’d smiled then told me, oh, is that right? Okay then, I know now.
Perhaps, some of you may think that this is going out of my way, I’d misremembered, something minute. But to me, this wasn’t minute at all, it’s, major, before my children, I’d felt compelled that “right is right and wrong is wrong”, this was a habit of mine, so, after I’d checked out the facts, and found that I’d, remembered wrong, I’d needed to amend myself, and admitted to my kids, that I was, wrong. This wasn’t anything major, but, it’s, an important principle of mine, everybody would do or say wrong things, but, to a lot, it’s, truly, very difficult to say a simple “I’m sorry”. Why? Because we’re, too proud, not wanting to admit, that we got it wrong, but, in my belief, doing things wrong isn’t the scariest, but, not admitting to it when you’re wrong, that, would be the most awful thing.
Admit to being wrong, and apologize sincerely, then, you’ll be, a better person. Dearest friends, if you want to be a better person, then, start by admitting to what you’d done wrong!
Yup, this, is an important value to acquire all right, but, just like that DEADBEAT, M***ER F***ING (maxed out) son-of-BITCH father of mine, “Do NOT say you’re sorry if you don’t mean it!”, and, it is very important, to start making amends, once you’d realized you’d done something wrong, show that you’re sorry, BY your actions, NOT just your words!!! That, is more important.