Have you ever had one of those conversations that you just knew was going to be the last of its kind with a person?
This evening I had a bare all with my ex-wife in which I quoted a few lines from Garth Brooks The Dance to her:
The dance we shared beneath the stars above
For a moment all the world was right
How could I have known you’d ever say goodbye
And now I’m glad I didn’t know
The way it all would end the way it all would go
Our lives are better left to chance I could have missed the pain
But I’d of had to miss the dance
I tried to explain to her that no matter how much pain there was it was nothing when compared to the pleasure that I had from knowing her. She interpreted it as if I knew that the marriage was going to fail that I would have still been a glutton for punishment and gone through it…
With the two choices being to know her or NOT to know her; it was still better to have know her and experienced it all rather than avoid knowing her at all.
She did not really get it, but then again we never really quite got it.