71. Face value
Have you ever heard the expression: don't take things at face value?
It means something like: don't assume something is worth what it seems to be worth, because it may be better or worse than it seems... or maybe simply that you shouldn't judge things until you examined them more closely.
The reason I called this entry Face value is because of Facebook... I don't know if Facebook is even going to exist anymore by the time you finally read this... I have the idea that it might just be forgotten again in a bunch of years when something truly better comes along.
Anyway... Facebook is a social networking site with a lot of games and what not on it... but it also allows you to get in touch with and stay in touch with people in your life, no matter from how long ago. I've got you listed as my son over there... which I reckon is probably one of the few written proofs you'll find in this world that you are in fact my son... but I think about you a lot... I wonder what kind of a boy you're turning into...
Very seldom do I hear anything from Georgia... and never directly, always by way of my parents. I hope you'll get to meet them again one day... they're such nice people, but they're getting older too and they won't be around forever...
Something else I've been thinking about lately is that I really should send your mother some money to help pay for all the expenses she has to make for you. The problem is that I don't know if she's gonna use it all for you or for herself.
I've told you before that it's basically been your mother's decision not to have me in your life anymore, since she'd rather keep us apart than admit that she made a mistake. That's her pride getting between us... and I don't know how to overcome that from over here.
However, that doesn't change the fact that your mom was left with you, with only the support of her parents and her brother to provide for you. I don't know if she's found someone else to replace me yet, someone else you now call father... part of me hopes not and part of me hopes she did... for your sake. I'd hate the idea of you calling someone else dad, but you need a male role model in your life and God only knows you need someone with some money to help pay for everything you may need.
Your mom may not want anything to do with me and I may have been out of work for about 9 months now, but I still think I'll probably send her some support money whenever I manage to get a proper new job again. I don't have a penny to spare really right now... usually when we go somewhere here nowadays it's using money we don't really have... but fortunately social security is a lot better here than it is over there, so if we can't work, we won't be kicked out into the streets, but we'll always have enough money to survive.
At any rate... I still plan to be a bigger part of your life... even if you may never know it.
I love you son.
Dad
It means something like: don't assume something is worth what it seems to be worth, because it may be better or worse than it seems... or maybe simply that you shouldn't judge things until you examined them more closely.
The reason I called this entry Face value is because of Facebook... I don't know if Facebook is even going to exist anymore by the time you finally read this... I have the idea that it might just be forgotten again in a bunch of years when something truly better comes along.
Anyway... Facebook is a social networking site with a lot of games and what not on it... but it also allows you to get in touch with and stay in touch with people in your life, no matter from how long ago. I've got you listed as my son over there... which I reckon is probably one of the few written proofs you'll find in this world that you are in fact my son... but I think about you a lot... I wonder what kind of a boy you're turning into...
Very seldom do I hear anything from Georgia... and never directly, always by way of my parents. I hope you'll get to meet them again one day... they're such nice people, but they're getting older too and they won't be around forever...
Something else I've been thinking about lately is that I really should send your mother some money to help pay for all the expenses she has to make for you. The problem is that I don't know if she's gonna use it all for you or for herself.
I've told you before that it's basically been your mother's decision not to have me in your life anymore, since she'd rather keep us apart than admit that she made a mistake. That's her pride getting between us... and I don't know how to overcome that from over here.
However, that doesn't change the fact that your mom was left with you, with only the support of her parents and her brother to provide for you. I don't know if she's found someone else to replace me yet, someone else you now call father... part of me hopes not and part of me hopes she did... for your sake. I'd hate the idea of you calling someone else dad, but you need a male role model in your life and God only knows you need someone with some money to help pay for everything you may need.
Your mom may not want anything to do with me and I may have been out of work for about 9 months now, but I still think I'll probably send her some support money whenever I manage to get a proper new job again. I don't have a penny to spare really right now... usually when we go somewhere here nowadays it's using money we don't really have... but fortunately social security is a lot better here than it is over there, so if we can't work, we won't be kicked out into the streets, but we'll always have enough money to survive.
At any rate... I still plan to be a bigger part of your life... even if you may never know it.
I love you son.
Dad
