Lots to be thankful for, you’d think. This time last year, I was unemployed.
But man, 2010’s been a lot. One of my best friends, so much like family that “he’s like family” feels insulting, lost his father last week. My buddy — whom I’m claiming ’til I get one helluva reason not to — is fighting a bum charge with his life on the line in every significant way I can think of. Last November, I had to live with the reality that I got my local ace boon fired and couldn’t do a damn thing about it. The other day, saw a buddy that lost his job last year about the same I did, got canned with a baby on the way. And the father of my godson was sitting in jail because somebody messed up some paperwork, making for one helluva setting to get a phone call saying his lady lost the baby they had on the way.
That said: one of my folks just got the job she’s been waiting to get. My little brother got the million views he wanted. Got a homie that’s politicking with the cats we used to sit around an talk about. I’ll be the best man in a great friend’s wedding this summer. And so many of the people I’ve worked with in various capacities are finally getting the shine they deserve, and I’m lucky enough to still be working with those people so many years later.
Moral of that abbreviated story is that I’m really thankful for just one thing: that we’ve got each other, and that’s not going to change.