This comment-of-the-day was by bobbt on the post Stop Trying to Control Men! (Like the Met’s Daniel Murphy)
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Daniel Murphy‘s decision is a ‘no brainer’ and it opens a sore spot for me. 23 years ago this Sept.9th, my son was born and I missed it because I went to work. Work was scarce at the time and money was becoming even more scarce. I was slowly failing at providing and staying employed. So the ‘Man Box’ won. Looking back, that money I made that day, oh it helped, but it didn’t ‘make or break’ us. If God himself came down and said “OK , here’s the deal, you get 1 moment in your past to ‘do over’”, although I may have a list, my choice would also be a ‘no brainer’.
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when i first read this on that thread, i thought it was a powerful comment bob.
surprised it has gone unremarked
offtopic: i think is this yr first c-o-d, as i cant remember seeing others. congrats man
Thank you Jameseq. This actually occurred after 4 weeks to the day that my father died. I lived my life to that point trying to make him proud of me and somehow I always felt I let him down. It was years later, talking to my aunts and uncles , as well as close friends of his, that they told me he was always voicing his pride as to how I turned out. That he was amazed as to how I could change a diaper, bath and feed my kids without ‘breaking a sweat'(his generation didn’t do that sort of… Read more »
Hey, at least I was there last March 6 to welcome him home from Afghanistan.