Yesterday I needed to be somewhere but I was unable to go.
There has to be someone, at some point in your life there has to be someone who has an affect.
It may take years to realise who they were or are, hopefully you discover it was them while they are around.
But there has to be someone to influence who you are, to set a standard, an example.
Someone you want to be worthy of, who you use as a measure - a yard stick.
There has to be someone who by their acts, words or values makes you see the meaning of being true.
They may never know that they were the one, the someone, that gave you an insight to the real meaning of being human.
Being strong but not brutal, caring but not soppy, true but not rigid, faithful but not dogmatic.
Yesterday I needed to go to the funeral of my someone.
The headmaster of my primary school passed away. He was a true giant of a man.
The kind of headmaster they don't make anymore.
Not a manager with his eye on league tables or kpi's.
Every autumn he helped the kids plant daffodils around the school grounds so they could see that what you do will have results.
It was up to you if the results were positive or not.
He taught us lessons we never knew we were having - integrity, strength of character, honesty, passion
He remembered all who he been at his school years after they had left and grown up
My reason for no making it was one I know Mr. Jones would have understood and agreed with. But I wish I'd made it.
Yesterday I needed to be somewhere but I was unable to go.