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"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.." Theodore Roosevelt
Although I had a lot of challanges in my marraige, and we suffered a lot of loss, I allways believed we would win the fight at some time.
It was at the point of realizing how much I had let myself be decieved, and therefore decieved myself also, that I had no spirit left to fight. It was then I truly felt my wounds and gave up, even on myself.
If it wasn't for the children...
Note: In doing the google search for this I saw a lot of headlines about how this did not really happen in history. But it exemplifies how I felt anyways..
Me 56 Former BS Widowed 5-17-09 --married 25 years. 4 children DS-35 previous marriage--18-22 DGrandSons 6 and 4 Me former BS DD-29 with DGDs 5 and 1yr DSs 26 and 23 Teilhard de Chardin..“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.” ...Sounds about right to me.
When Mel Gibsons Character asked the reporter why he came to the battlefield that was so dangerous and so many were dying, and added, "Where are you from Son?", the Reporter said "Galveston, TX"..
Then Mel says, "Thats the first thing that made sense to me all day.."
Thats an Texasism if I ever heard one.. Thought of you and about every texan I ever knew. Well real Texans anyway.