Things not said, advice not given, envelopes unstamped, regrets enveloping me.
Is it easier there? I wonder. I ponder. I guess. Yes. I guess. Yes.
Do you think of me as I do of you, my son? My son.
The things you will do, I will never know. The pain. The secrets.
Oh, to be given a chance, a start, the restart, the fresh start.
Will love come for you, as it did for me? Find you, wreck you, save you, change you?
And if life breaks for you the way it would not break for me, I'd love hunts you, finds you, captures you, will you hold it tight, nurture it, protect it?
I hope you will. I hope you can.
This father's advice is not required, it has no call, so instead I will share some from another.
It's better to have loved and lost than to never have loved at all.
And now, an addendum to my earlier advice, if I am so lucky as to still have your ear.
I loved you, lost you.
And I advise you, it was better than to never having had loved at all.
But now, with more years, with more time, more perspective, I see things in a slightly new way.
So here, my good son, is a father's advice, updated and recalled.
It's better to have loved and lost, surely,
but try not to lose it at all.
From "This is Us" Season 2 Episode 1.
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