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By Milton Niles
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It was not until I became disabled that I began to realize just how much I missed working. To me the old saying actually became real to me as I had to sit at home and do nothing. Oh, it was okay to start but after awhile it got to miserable and I found myself needing to be doing something. I already went through two bone graphs to my spine and found myself getting lazier and lazier with depression setting.
In nineteen seventy-seven I fell at work injuring my spine, I was a sergeant in the security field and knew my job quite well. After receiving workman’s comp for a couple of months I decided to go back to work but the doctors said I could not. Right then and there I made the biggest mistake and moved out of town. I gave up the workman’s comp and found a job in Virginia. I had to move back to Pennsylvania in 1981, after having two family tragedies.
I found a job making bullet-proof vests for the military and I made a good wage. However I could not bring myself to acknowledge that my spine was getting worse. Before I knew it I could hardly even walk, as a matter of fact I walked like a ninety year old man and lost my job. Being so bull-headed I still did not want to go to a doctor but ended up going about six months later. I was diagnosed with narrowing of the spine and a degenerative bone disease in which I needed surgery.
I started receiving Social Security Disability and after the first surgery in which they did a bone graph, I felt like a new man with the energy to go along with it. This in itself became a huge problem because I began to do things I surely was not supposed to do. Needless to say I busted the fusion and ended up having to go through another surgery. Believe me that “macho” stuff is not worth the agony as I almost died in the second surgery. This had all taken place between 1985 and 1987.
After about five years I lost most of my faith and began to wonder why I was in this position. I wanted to go back to work and could not which made things even harder to comprehend. I also thought about all the times I wanted a break from work and wanted to just lay around and be lazy. Well it happened so here I am in the opposite and wanting to work. I began to realize the saying about never missing the water only I was missing work. The moral of this story is work and believe me one would not want to be in that position…..Ever.
In 1991 God gave me another chance to do something. He renewed my faith and now I work for Him or rather work with Him. I have become an author and try to write every day except when as with anything you need a break. I don’t call it work anymore but enjoyment. So my friends, don’t do as I did grumbling and wanting to get away from work because in the end…’You will regret it for the remainder of your life.’
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