Life is not always fair. This is a truth that I have learned to live with. I discovered this fact about three years ago. Accepting this fact has helped with better cope with the ups and especially downs of life.
It feels like it was just yesterday, I can still hear myself knocking on the door asking Jill, my oldest sister, what was wrong. She was sobbing on the other side of the door. So, with great concern, I called her best friend, Tina, and received the tragic news from her mother, Eric had died. Eric was one of my sister’s best friends.
Eric’s father had died when he was only nine-years-old. This left Eric growing up with a brother, a sister, and only