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As I revealed to Lost Sister a short while back, I have returned to Washington. I have "let go" of my hope and desire for my daughter as my lover, and have replaced it with a hope and desire for her happiness with her husband. I have accepted our true place in each other's life, as father and daughter. In letting go we release from us that which pains us. We make our hands free to grasp again something else. We surrender thus our greatest joy and our greatest sorrow. We do this not to lose them, but to embrace them anew...to take them into our hearts in the roles they were meant to play, instead of in the role we tricked ourselves into playing. I am free of the misery and ecstacy of our GSA. The cost to me that remains is my daughter's conflicted feelings toward me. While she wants to trust me as her father, she is reminded of my selfishness in the throws of GSA, finding trust a hard thing to grant. But I am free, and trust can be earned. And for the first time in many years, I am whole again and very happy that I have my daughter in my life. Forever.
Last edited by Vin Rohm : 06-23-2011 at 04:21 AM.
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