You must understand my position, which is: I really don’t care what you and others do. It will not affect me since I am an old man and from a family that doesn’t live very long...so I am living on the proverbial “borrowed time.” Most importantly of all, I leave no prodigy. So, you see, I really have no “skin in the game.”
I have long been a Christian and have lived a very moral life, so I expect to arise into a better life.
I was merely pointing out what ought to be obvious.
Anyway, I don’t know whether you’re young, old, or in-between, but you might be one of those who lives to regret certain decisions.
We have nothing more to say to each other. So, adios.
I don’t have any children, old man.
And I have plenty of regrets on my conscience, and for that matter sins, as well.
I have no “expectations” about arising from this life, but I have my struggles toward faith, and I have my prayers.
One thing we both have, we all have, is skin in this game. I have been sharp with you because you seem to think you have cashed your bets in, and you wanted that young father to wish he had done the same.
When the time comes to fight, if it does, I will fight for the likes of him AND for the likes of you-—you and I probably have a good deal more in common than he and I do, other than you have apparently lived your life more carefully and faithfully than I.
Nonetheless I would stand beside you, if you would allow it, and beside him just the same.
I will be praying for all of us.