When we were kids playing baseball in the street, if there was a disagreement over whether someone was out or safe, or whether a ball was fair or foul, or a pitch was a strike or a ball, we could always have a "do-over," in which we all agreed to start the play again.
But real life doesn't offer us do-overs. In our pursuit of love, if we don't act when the opportunity presents itself, that opportunity is lost, a second one seldom presenting itself. As a spouse or a parent, if we are too busy or uncaring, our marriages will go askew and our children will grow up without us, and as sorry as we may later be, there is no second chance.
This is the time to get it right as best we are able, and despite the mistakes we all make, in our hearts there won't later be a desire for do-overs, a desire that will never be met, for we will have given our love, our compassion and of ourselves freely.
Dick
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