What Matters

NOTE: What you see below is just a teaser. The full post is one I wrote for Elizabeth Potts-Weinstein over at her blog, but I wanted everyone who follows my blog to be sure to check this one out.

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When I found out what was happening with EPW’s daughter Gracie, I didn’t want to hear it. I didn’t want to hear it for Elizabeth and I didn’t want to hear it for Gracie, but most of all I simply didn’t want to hear it for me.

I have two kids. One of them is Gracie’s age. And a few years ago, we had a little scare. It turned out to be nothing, and even if it had turned out to be something, the worst case scenario would have been a few days in the hospital. But even that — that smallish incident that involved my son, that was totally out of my control — knotted my stomach and made everything else in my life irrelevant for a little while.

So I can’t imagine what these two are going through. I don’t want to imagine it. I’d give anything in Elizabeth’s shoes. And I’m sure she’d give anything, too. When one of your kids is at stake, everything else is irrelevant. You don’t weigh costs in a situation like this. You simply pay them.

Which led to a really interesting realization.

>> Read the full post on ElizabethPottsWeinstein.com

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