You have e-mail.  check it.

I'd miss you a whole lot!  Remember,  we've read of your life since after your accident and gotten to feel that we know you. JUsers do care bout you!

Everytime I'm on the road I look to see if it's you and your rig,  can't wait to see if you've grown that dang beard again,  or if you got a new hat....

Hope you're feeling a lil better today truckman

It took you 47 years to realize this... lol. Everyone will be yesterdays news when they are dead.

No, ya really wouldn't, but thanks.

No, ya really wouldn't, but thanks.

I assume you mean knitting, but thanks. They may miss my writing about it for a short time, but they wouldn't really me, the person, at all. I honestly can't think of a single person in my life that would actually miss me or feel any great loss if I were to check out this moment.

No, ya really wouldn't, but thanks.

I was trying to reply to the replies but am having connection troubles.

Thanks to everyone who replied and although I disagree with those who think they would actually miss my presence on this planet, I appreciate the thought just the same. The thought is enough to make me feel like I have some connection to my fellow human beings even if it is just an electrical one.

Hi M! You don't want to hear it but I do hope the new year will be better for you!  I know it seems hopeless right now, but it will get better for you.  You're allowed to wallow and feel sorry for yourself.  When the feeling comes on, let it happen.  If writing helps to get it out, wirte away, we're here to listen.  Just don't keep it in.  Take it from one who knows.  Did your family received the flowers I sent? I'm not sure.   Anyway, please let me know if I can ever do anything to help.  Take care of yourself and you're in my prayers.

Mason, you're Mr. Popularity whenever you hit Applebees.  People like you.  I understand that its hard to have a true connection with people when you are always on the move.  Trucking seems like it would be a lonely lifestyle.  I know you were considering making a career change.  Maybe that's the direction you are headed.  Maybe you could work for the truck company without being a driver. 

Believe me I know what its like to feel forgotten.  That's what makes it so great when you are remembered.  Still if you long for connection, reach out to the people you meet.  Take care of you.  blah, blah, blah, platitude, platitude, platitude ...but really I'm trying to help.  (((Mason)))

and btw the next time you come through Weatherford, contact me.  I'd love to meet you IRL. 

Mason,  step up and say hi.  We, WHO CARE, want to hear where you are traveling to and how things are going.  OK?

j

There are many ways to miss someone.  You would be missed by many.  LIfe would go on, but there would be a hole in it that you occupy.  Dont sell yourself short George Bailey.

YOu are a good man, and affect many lives.  My own being one of them.  May this year be better than the last one, and the best of your 47 years.

Kinda late to this conversation. I have to say that if what you say is true than it would be a shame that no one would actually care in that manner about you. I don't know you very well, but unless you have been lying or only saying about the good things you do or good days you have, from what I have read on your aticles you seem like a decent person, one that could be a great example of how this country could benefit if there were more people like you.

I, on the other hand, feel as if I would be missed (at least by my mother, brothers, sister and my kids) alot yet I don't think I would deserve such attention. My life has been nothing but one screw up after another ever since I reached 17 years old. I have never been able to accomplish anything that anyone could be proud of and even those things that seem like decent accomplishments are easily dismissed by the 10 mistakes I make before or after. I often find myself thinking about the damage I have caused to everyone around me, my kids, their mother, my own family. I then find myself trying to figure out what to do to stop the damage since my screw ups don't seem to end to this date. Many ideas have crossed my mind (disappearing to another country or anoter state, becoming a monk or some kind of spiritual person who keeps to themselves, and yes, even suicide) but I find that they too would cause more dameg to my family which makes my thinking even harder.

They say the first step to solving a personal problem is to admit you have one. It would seem this is the first and only step since I have never been able to go beyond admitting and accepting I have a problem. All my attempts to change and fix my problems have been futile.

I am sorry for my long rant Mason and possibly stealing a bit on your thunder on your own article. You gave me an opportunity to let some steam out. Thank you.

Sounds like a normal dude to me.

Probably. But maybe I wish I wasn't normal, even though I have never considered myself normal.