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Sunday, January 16, 2011

Well thanks but no thanks...

Midnight, two hours ago, my family broke up for the second time...well not officially, but it will happen.
Shane, Mindy, and I all took a sibling trip down to the casino. We were destined to be there...obviously if one is destined to be somewhere the casino would be one great place for it to be! You would think with that statement that one of us hit the jackpot or that we at least won an incredible amount of money. That just isn't the case.
In fact, Mindy was devastatingly broke, Shane was down twenty, and I had pumped in yet another HUNDRED to no avail. I wanted to take more money out, but Mindy was ready to go. It was time.
As we exited the casino, we seen a truck pull into the same spot my dad always parks in. It was far away, so we couldn't really be sure that it was him. Shane was certain. We walked towards his truck so we could say hi when a female got out of the truck and headed towards the casino...and it was NOT my mother. Naturally, I couldn't resist the temptation to yell...
Needless to say, my dad and I exchanged some words and we all stormed off to my car while he headed in to the casino.
Shane and Mindy sat in the car telling me how it was none of my business and how we should just leave because Dad already knows that he was busted, but it just is not in my nature to just sit back and watch people around me intentionally hurt other people. I mean, at SOME MOMENT it HAD to cross his mind that what he was doing was wrong?! Yet he kept right on walking, no turning back.
I couldn't just sit back and keep my mouth shut so I walked in to the casino, and gave him a second dose of my opinion. This time I told him I didn't appreciate how he was doing my mom dirty like that, how he had no business running around with a tweeker and how I expected him to tell my mom what he was doing. He told me that he would tell her himself and that he wanted me to leave him alone so that he could enjoy what few moments he had left at the casino....
To rub salt into my wound, on the way home I recalled just a week prior when he spoke of how taking a woman to the casino was bad luck....when referring to Mindy and me. Well apparently Karma, if there is such a thing, just came up and bit him in the ass.
I know right now I need to lean on God, and this is one of those situations where the serenity prayer really needs to be replayed over and over and over again in my heart.
GOD
Grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change.
To courage to change the things I can.
And the wisdom to know the difference.

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