Close Your Eyes to See
You are here: Home » Close your Eyes to See Front: Christopher and Nico at St. Mary's Hospital July 9th, 2014 Well it’s been over 2 years since my wife died and I have been holding on my own during the recovery and doing pretty well raising our sons alone. I didn’t think I could ever get myself so strong physically. Mentally however, I feel like I could fall of that wagon at any time and just recede back into self-despair. I just turned forty-one but I don’t feel any different then when I did, twenty years ago. In fact those years seem like yesterday. The only time I remember how old I truly am is when I count back the years when I received my drivers license, graduated from school or when I look up a song, on the internet, to see when the song was released. At forty-one I had no idea that my life would be a constant test of my will and mental stress. My parents made life seem so easy. I just didn’t realize, when I was a child, that the more ol...