I'm sitting here this early morning, drinking my coffee, news in the background, and catching up on Hive posts and comments. Most of all, I am anxiously waiting on a morning text or call from my oldest son.
Here in about an hour he should be headed out to his work. Usually when he is not working from home, he will call me on his drive into work. It takes him about an hour to get to work due to traffic. So he kills time talking to his old man.
It is one of my favorite times of the day. We talk about his work, most of which I do not understand. We also talk about family, dogs (he has two), politics, and life in general.
If you were to ask me 10 years ago if this was possible I would have said you were nuts. At that time my oldest and I were not very close. I had spent a lot of time away when he was younger. We never really closed the gap in his older teenage years either.
In fact as he got older, we seemed to be at odds with each other constantly. So much so that I think when the time came, he elected to go to school out of state just to get out from under me.
What's funny though, is that as soon as he moved out and started going to school out of state, is when we started communicting more. We started talking to each other and not past each other.
What changed, I am not sure. Maybe it was him getting out on his own and realizing a thing or two. Maybe it was me realizing how overbearing I had been as a father. Maybe it was a combination of both.
What I do know is that I appreciate every second with him, and my youngest, now. I think they appreciate their time with me much more now too. Maybe when I am gone he will remember some words of wisdom, or some funny things i said on his morning drive and smile regularly.
I do hope so.
Thanks for reading,
Joe
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