Another Week

It has been another wild week at my house. When I left school on Friday the 6th, my mom said we needed to stop by her friends house. Her dad has been sick with cancer, and was not doing very well that morning, and neither was her friend. I really wanted to go back home, eat and lay down, but I knew this was important to my mom. So we went for what was suppose to be a short visit. It turned out to be an all day long event. With my mom helping her friend feed, wash up, and help this man to the bathroom. I stayed out in the car for awhile, read a magazine and even went to go get a haircut. I thought we would leave after I got my haircut, but we stayed even longer. I am a pretty easy going person, but this was not what I wanted to be doing on a Friday, and actually, I had an English paper I needed to be working on. When we finally left that night, hungry and tired, my mom was apologizing to me. I told her it was no big deal. She just kept trying to tell me that sometimes, we have to do things we don't want to do. Sometimes we need to put other peoples wants and needs ahead of ours. I thought about that, I already knew that was true. Our friend passed away on November 10, 2009, after battling cancer for a year. A year is really not a long time, and his health was pretty good until the last month, but he was in tremendous pain, and we wanted to be happy he was no longer suffering. Then came the call..... "Do you think Zac would be a pallbearer for dad?". My mom said yes, without even asking me. When she did ask me, she again apologized that she has said yes without asking, and told me I did not have to be a pallbearer if I did not want to, they would all understand. I did not really want to do this, I did not know any of the other pallbearers, as they were from his extended family. My parents talked about it being an honor to be asked, again, there are things we have to do in life that we don't want to do. So me being me, and like in my other blogs, I truly do try to do the right thing, I said if no one else is willing to do this, I will. I had to sit right in front of the casket, at the front of the funeral home, my mom right behind me. You know what I found out? It was not as bad as I thought it would be. Isn't that the way life is? If we would just go ahead and jump in and get the job done, it might just turn out, it wasn't, isn't and won't be as bad as we thought it would be. Go live your life!!!!