Last Wednesday night,(08/18/10) I am sitting home alone already in my pj's watching tv and talking on the phone with my friend Kathy, when my cell phone rings. It is my nephew, Nick, he wants to know if it is alright for him to come over and see me. Of course I say just give me time to get dressed!!!
About 10 minutes later he is at the front door with his girlfriend Kerri. He has come to say goodbye as he was leaving for college on Thursday! I looked at his young man and thought where have the last 18 years gone? How did he grow up so fast? He can't be old enough to go to college.
I missed the first four years of his life as my brother did not allow me around his family. So I only had fourteen years to watch him grow. I remember the first time I took him to the movies, the day I bought him his first baseball bat and glove and day I taught him how to pee outside behind grandma's bush!!
I went to every soccer game, every football game from middle school to his senior year. I even became the secretary for the Weir Football Boosters for a child that was not mine. I am not asking for a pat on a back from anyone. I just want people to know how much joy nieces and nephews can bring to a woman who never married and because of that never had children of her own.
Has we sat here and talked that night he told me he didn't know if he wanted to be a pharmcist or a doctor. He said he really wanted to be a doctor. I told him that he has to do what he thinks will make him happy not what makes everbody else happy. I told him he can't worry about pleasing the world he has to decide what is going to please him. We weren't put on this earth to make the whole world happy we were put here to find our purpose in life and find happiness within ourselves with no matter what path we choose to take.
As he got up to leave I had to stand on my toes to hug him. Fourteen years ago I was picking him up and hugging him. Now he is a man who I am so proud to call my adult nephew. Now if I could just quit crying!
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