noticing dates

I try to avoid knowing what day of the month it is around specific parts of the year. It’s just better to not notice. I had to write a check today. Today is Tommy’s birthday. He would be 33. In June it will be 12 years since he died. I didn’t have a good relationship with him by any stretch of the imagination but it is still really hard to think of him. I wonder if I will ever stop feeling responsibility? I wonder if we would have been able to have a relationship as adults. Would I have developed compassion and patience for him? Most of his issues were quite literally not his fault. He had a severe brain injury. I’ll never know.

One thought on “noticing dates

  1. rbus

    nearly 30 years ago my dad (72) and older brother (32)
    died within months of one another.

    with dad, i miss the relationship we had.
    with brother, i miss the relationship we would’ve had.

    even after all this time…

    what you feel makes you human.

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