(September 9, 2017 at 3:49 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: I'm so sorry Brian.
It must be ready hard to have a birthday without your mom when there are so many memories with her on this day. I hope you have the best day you can under the circumstances. <3
Thank you. Out of everyone here, in this thread, you have been the most supportive, now if I could only convince you like I could not my mom, that a god is superfluous, I would have a great birthday. But just like her, to take the support you can get and value it.
Funny thing is, outside my mom, nobody made my birthday a national holiday, metaphorically speaking. Most of the time I get Happy Birthday. I sometimes envy those who have those surprise parties, but then I realize the earth is far older than me.
There really is no good birthday wish or gift for me. I don't see that as good or bad, but just reality. My mom was a 365 day a year gift, and this is just one day on a planet of 7 billion in a 4 billion year old history. If time had allowed her to survive longer, that would have been my best gift. But that didn't happen, so now I can only think of what we had, and until I die, to me nothing will ever replace that.
I can't have my mom back on my birthday, but I do have our memories, and that is priceless. I do know that if the Redskins win tomorrow, she would smile. If they lose, she would roll her eyes at my ranting and say, "How does shouting at the TV help?"
