Re:I’m a freelance copywriter
by bernardlunn on Sunday April 02, 2017 @02:23AM
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This Cat Stevens song always brings something to the eyes.
This is not a Cat Stevens song.
However, Cat Stevens/Yusuf Islam did write "Father & Son" - which brings tears to my eyes... when I think of my son and my dad.
I was introduced to that song through the Ugly Kid Joe cover when in my teens, and it could make me cry then. Now, with my own children, I might just weep if I listened to it in its entirety.
Re:I’m a freelance copywriter
by bernardlunn on Sunday April 02, 2017 @02:34AM
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And another great wordsmith on the same subject:
Enjoy now
Re:I’m a freelance copywriter
by forestriver on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @12:11PM
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You sound like a really good parent. I wish My Dad had been like that
Being not-very-emotional, I always figured that "they grow up too fast" wouldn't hit me, but it has. There is so much more I wanted to provide my son (the oldest, age 7). I wish that I could just put his growth timeline on pause and continue to get to enjoy him, at least until I feel like I've gotten the TODO at least half-way cleared out.
7 years gone by, 7 more years and he'll be 14. Half of his childhood already slipped through the hourglass and I barely noticed it. Can't take it.
Same story with his siblings. It seems that no matter how much time you spend with them, it will always feel like it evaporated, and there will always be stuff you wanted to do but couldn't get to. I don't expect that to change, but the sadness in that slippage is profound.
I hope the future, where they're all old people, is somehow competitive with the present. Hard to conceive how that could happen right now.
Speaking of something in eyes...