*shrug*
Ain't no thang
One can do anything they want, no matter what Life tosses at 'em. Always remember - there will always be those worse off than you and those better off than you.
Attitude of Gratitude, One day at a time, Run what you brung...
One cannot choose family -
one for damn sure can choose true friends.
I had/ have some Mentors & Elders - I miss 'em that have passed on. They ain't gone, hell I keep passing forward as they passed to me in a sense - eternal.
Grateful for that - always will be.
I did not miss out - instead the fella that sired me missed out. His choice , not mine.
We each gotta run what we brung - I come out w-a-y ahead of this deal.
Folks I have assisted with - continue to say they are getting the better end of the bargain.
Nope, sorry, it is I that thanks them, and I thank 'em on behalf of Mentors & Elders not around to thank them themselves.
Now for too many years I have been this "Adopted Uncle" don't matter if a kid, single lady, single mom, Married couple ( or for how long) , younger, older, single fella, black, white, green blue and whatever else.
Human rights are Human Rights - period end of story.
Don't much give a whit what .gov says, or some TV or Movie says - Right is Right. Moral Law is Moral Law.
Never been about me, never will be.
Get the hankering for a new firearm for me and ...dang there is a single shot .22 rifle, or a shotgun kid sized. Maybe a handgun, like a .22 revolver/ semi..., or Used Police trade in Model 10.
Some old used Case knife with yellow handles and Chrome Vanadium blades with a bit of Patina looking kind of lonely...
I don't
need that firearm I had a hankering for...
Now having something for someone else to learn to shoot on , or passing on how to whittle, or cut rope, or cut an apple - that is more important.
Down the road - these folks do the same thing. They in turn spend that money on a .22 single shot rifle that fits a kid and a brick of ammo.
They don't have kids - still they will run into one, or maybe nieces and nephews will come to visit when they get bigger - who knows? Don't really matter, got that .22 single shot - "just because"...
Same reason they keep a few copies of
The Old Man And The Boy by Robert Ruark handy - "Just Because"...
How raised - what you do.