This afternoon and evening we attended a wedding of my #2 daughter's high school chums. I am a sucker for a wedding. I always think of the youngsters and the life ahead of them and spend perhaps more time than I should getting teary eyed.

Tonight at the dinner we sat at a table with a lady and her daughter who had another daughter the same age as my #2 who was killed in a car accident along with the ladies husband. The lady was driving the car and fell asleep. The daughter who was killed was a wonderful influence on my daughter their junior year when my daughter suffered from serious depression. The fatal accident occurred the next summer.

At the next table was a family who had a daughter who was in a serious accident and was comatose for a good while and is now in a wheelchair. I knew of the girl but did not know that her father is a man who worked on the plumbing in my building ten years ago. He is a really great guy.

So here I am already a big teary eyed guy and I am sitting next to the widow and at the next table to the fellow who's daughter was so damaged and is s sitting there in her wheel chair. Her father is just a wonderful, positive man.

So it was one of those moments which you have occasionally where you realize your own problems are so very petty.

Count your blessings my friends!

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