Eugene Lemoine:  

LIFE IS A JOURNEY UNLIKE ANY OTHER. WE MAKE PLANS AND HAVE EXPECTATIONS WHICH RARELY DEVELOPE OR RESULT WITH MATCHED PERCEPTION. PEOPLE OFTEN DISAPPOINT US ALONG THE JOURNEY. WE MAKE PLANS AND MODIFY THEM AS LIFE LEADS US ALONG AN UNKNOWN PATH. SOME OF US EXPERIENCE UNEXPECTED DEATH OF FAMILY OR FRIEND WHICH MAY EFFECT THE COURSE WE TRAVEL IN LIFE. WE ADJUST AND STRIVE DAY BY DAY TO LIVE THE BEST WE CAN. WE ARE JUDGED BY OTHERS, TOO OFTEN, AND FALSE ASSUMPTIONS MADE IN GRIEF, ANGER AND AT TIMES GUILT. FORTUNATELY, I HAVE OVERCOME MANY OF MY PERSONAL CHARACTER DEFECTS AND VICES THROUGH MATURITY AND SPIRITUAL AWAKENING. I HAVE EXPERIENCED MANY SETBACKS IN LIFE BUT HAVE ALSO BEEN BLESSED WITH SUCCESS. I TRY NOT TO JUDGE OTHERS FOR NONE OF US ARE WITHOUT FLAW. I LIVE LIFE ONE DAY AT A TIME WITH NEITHER LONG RANGE PLAN NOR DWELL ON THE PAST FOR THE ONLY TIME WE CAN CONTROL IS THE PRESENT. MY BEST FRIEND ON THIS PLANET IS MY WIFE OF TWENTY FOUR YEARS THIS NOVEMBER TWENTY FIRST. IF I COULD SEE ANYONE AGAIN MY WISH WOULD BE TO HOLD MY FIRST WIFE AND HIGHSCHOOL SWEETHEART, KAREN, ONCE MORE, BUT GOD TOOK HER SEPT. 8TH 1984. SHE'S WITH HIM NOW. PERHAPS WE WILL MEET AGAIN, I HOPE. AFTER KAREN DIED I SUFFERED WITH SEVERE DEPRESSION COULD NOT FUNCTION PROFESSIONALLY LATER RETURNING TO COLLEGE BECAME AN R.N. I'M PRESENTLY RETIRED FROM FUNCTIONING AS AN ICU CHARGE REGISTERED NURSE DISABLED WITH OSTEOARTHRITIS, DJD, HAVE KNEE REPLACEMENT AND HAD BILATERAL HIP REPLACEMENT SURGERY DECEMBER 2009. I'VE HAD A FRONTAL H...Expand for more