Uncle dearest (453 hits)
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Submitted by Aladdin El Salhadin <gaiijinninja.at.yahoo.com> (View user info) at 2005-01-23 07:45:46 EST
You can have friends, family and people who love you and still be alone.
You can have girlfriends, lovers and romantic trysts and still be alone.
You can live your entire life under the illusion that you're happy. That you have purpose and that what you do has some semblance of meaning.
Until I met him, it did not.
You fill the void anyway that you can. You fill it with hobbies, interests and spending time with others. You may turn to faith, god or a divine entity to give you what you need.
He gave it to me.
Seventeen years upon this earth and not a single thing to show for it. No morals, ethics or direction.
I have infinite amounts of potential and yet no place to put it or direct it.
Until I met him.
Globalization, they constantly bring up the term and state that the world is constantly getting smaller. This may be true, but they never cease to make the individual and their importance shrink too.
I didn't matter, till he told me.
My Uncle didn't exist in my life until five days ago.
Till then he was just a name on the family tree. Occasional conversations on the telephone and the rare video message where all I knew about him.
He was coming to Sydney for five days. He was coming to see the wedding of his sister, my Aunty.
He arrived and yet nothing, still just a name to a face and another stranger in my life.
I didn't have any comprehension of how important he would be to me, how great an impact he would have in my life.
For the first time in my life, someone sat down and they talked to me.
He told me about his horrible childhood; the teasing and the ridicule that he was forced to endure.
The hardships of being different, the anger towards those around him and the scars that he still keeps till this day.
He sat down and he taught me about purpose, about reason and gave me answers.
Until he sat down with me; talked to me and taught me, I was alone.
He gave me the greatest gifts that any man can be given; wisdom, compassion and love.
In mere hours; he explained the amazing universe to me. He managed to explain the system by which everything works and why we are here. Quite a feat for one evenings work.
I didn't think it would be so hard to say goodbye, but it was.
How can you say goodbye to someone who taught you so much?
How can you say goodbye to someone who gave you purpose?
How can you say goodbye to someone who made you feel like you were a million feet tall?
I cannot help crying, the void is far too much for me to stay quiet.
His final words to me, so simple and yet so deep, "I am proud of you"
Seventeen years and finally direction, finally hope.
Although it hurts more then anything could possibly hope to hurt, it was completely worth it.
I would not trade my five days for all the gold, love or beauty in this world.
Without meeting him, I would never be happy.
With meeting him, I will never be sad.
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Submitted by Vomit (user info) at 2005-01-23 12:20:51 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
I didn't read it, but thought it looked pretty pathetic sitting there with just one review. Have a +1 because it looks like it took some effort.
Submitted by earth_collapse (user info) at 2005-01-23 09:10:55 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
Hmm... I don't like the way you wrote this.
But it was good nonetheless.