Parent's "Band-Aid"

     This past Saturday morning was one of the first times i've played basketball since i fractured my foot 3 month ago.  As i returnd i knew there would be pain (pain of not being in condition, the discomfort of not havngmy game on point, and the disposition of qustioning myself "should i still keep pursuing this basketball thing".

     So befo i played i had the creative urge to stick a band-aid on my

 arm with the names of  the two most important people in my life written in permannent marker - "Peter and Raenell" (my dad and my mom). The band-aid itself represented my parents and the powerful force they serve in my life to help heal pains im goin throu

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     Now any pain i endure that i endure from the game of basketball, i quickly relate it to the paini recived from being cut my senior year in high school.  I still remember ho wmy parents were there with love and support and even though imay not have agreed with what theysaid back then- I've long since been okay with it cause lookingback on it i see how (probably) would say the exact same things to my kid. 
     Dad, Mom, since i can remember you have covered up my wounds with words of encouraement and promoted healing just by being there showing love and support.  It's been 10 years and im more than 300 miles away from you guys.  Yet still i hear and u se your wods of encouragement (to heal pain) just like a "band-aid". Though i can take off a band-aid, the significance that my parents play as a "band-aid" will never go away and is more permanent and viible than ay permanent marker or tattoo.
     ironically enoug while playing ball saturday morning i suffered a bruise the same position that my parents band aid was situated in.  as i rubbed it (to soothe it), its almost as if i felt my parents healing me right there. 
     Thank you Mom and Dad for being a "band aid" in my life. Even still at this age, you do it with out knowing or trying. What yu hav been to me has made a "wolvrine" out of me like from the "xmen comic books for having yall i feel like i will always have great healing abilities.