It was what is was, Anthony

Anthony has been a great friend to me since the early '70's. We connect on so many levels....especially thru humor. We contact each other a couple or three times a month just to stay 'connected'. We know almost everything about each other & our families. We gossip, we laugh at ourselves, and just about everything else. The other morning I called him just to 'check in', and we got to reminiscing..........'Remember Howard's (his dad) 60th birthday party @ Railhead'?, he said....we laughed hystercally about how the party played out, about his Dad and his personality. We reminisced about his brother Mark, who was like a son to me, and, died of AIDS while I was living on Guam. At one point during the conversation, he said 'do you really have any regrets'? I said 'well, I don't know, it was what it was'...........'ya', he said, 'it was what it was', and we hung up. I have thought about that conversation many times in th past few days. YES, I DO HAVE MANY REGRETS..............almost the whole decade! I wish I could do the '80's over again! ' Father, 'I have sinned'.........okay, say 1000 Hail Mary's, and 1000 'Our Father's' and go & sin no more'...............Okay, 'thank you Father'.