With every personal problem I think I have that prevents me from doing so many things in life, there is nothing that hits home like this. I have neglected a lot of things recently which include Ebay, friends and this blog. My life is busy and I don’t realize how little time there is until something like this happens. A great woman named Debbie Killingsworth dies this week and it has absolutely hurt me. This woman, her husband and their entire family were basically a second family to me when I lived in California.
I met them because a friend of mine in the Marine Corps was dating (and eventually married) their daughter. We got along so great that I continued to visit them. Being that they were my parents age, and good people, they became like a second family to me away from home. They fed me, gave me a place to stay and loved me. Their son Rick became a Marine because of the respect they had for myself, Joe Simmons, Joe Castillo and Ty Stewart. I was close with both Joe’s but not Ty. Regardless of this, they loved us all and treated us like their own kids.
They tried to hook me up with women in an effort to make me happy because they thought so highly of me and I ended up meeting the mother of my child. That didn’t work out well with her and I, but it was no fault of theirs and inevitably gave me the greatest joy of my life. My son’s mother and I do not get along well these days but we are both sad at this point.
This is one of those things for me right now that really shakes me up. I have been in touch with Debbie over the last couple years, but I am upset now because I didn’t keep up with them like I should have. When their son Rick graduated USMC boot camp in Sand Diego I went and I feel good for that, but I did not treat them the way they treated me since I left the west coast. I have made excuses that I’ve been busy and what not, but I realize now that there is no excuse for neglecting those that love you.
I love the entire Killingsworth family and I’m sad and angry now that I didn’t keep up with them like I should have over the years.
I put this out for everyone because I hope I can help make you understand that there is always time to show love to those that matter. I hate that I haven’t been able to speak to the family so far this week, but it’s not their fault. It’s my own fault for not keeping in touch with them like I should have.
The bottom line in all this is this, if there is someone out there that you love, make time for them. We all have a tendency to take things for granted and think we can get to these things later, but you can’t. Do what you can now! Send a card, make a short phone call, send an email, whatever you have to do, do it!. God bless the Killingsworth family right now. They are all great people and deserve better than what was given to them this week.
Rest in peace Debbie, I loved you as a mother and I will miss you!
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