Broken Roads by Ira Wagler

Author:Ira Wagler
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: FaithWords
Published: 2020-05-11T16:00:00+00:00

Reuben and Me

There’s an old friend in my life. His name is Reuben. We’ve known each other all our lives. We were pretty much best friends, in all that time. I mean, from back when we were kids. And a number of years back, he made some very, very bad choices. He chose to walk down some real hard roads. He made some destructive, destructive decisions. And his world blew up. Just blew up into smithereens, like mine did. He chose to leave his wife and family for an idol. He did that. Walked away from his family. And from where I was at that time, well, he chose to leave all we had known as old friends for an idol, too. And we were totally estranged, he and I, for a few years.

I guess it needs to be said why. This is why. My marriage to Ellen was failing, all on its own. It would have failed, anyway. Reuben kind of hastened the inevitable by having an affair with my wife. My eyes were open. I should have known. But I didn’t. Some places, your mind just won’t go. Refuses to go. It all came out, brilliantly clear, after Ellen left our home. She and Reuben were figuring to be together in the future. The moves he made, those were all geared to that one disastrous goal. It was a brutal blow, and it was a brutal betrayal. From both of them.

At the time, I wrote savagely at Reuben, mostly on my blog. I swore to curse him and his seed forever. Never quite got that done, though. I wanted to, but somehow, it just never happened. Still. What is written is written and cannot be easily undone. It’s a record of a journey, whatever that journey was.

Reuben left then, and moved to a faraway land. He and Ellen were wild and free and together for less than a year. Anyone with half a brain could have known their “love” couldn’t last. I certainly could have told them both that. I guess they had to find out on their own. After some years had passed, he moved back into the area to reconnect with his broken family. Mostly with his children, his sons and daughters. He wanted to get back into the daily operations of his business, too. And he reached out to me to see if some kind of reconciliation could be possible. I was extremely skittish when he approached me and put out the feelers. But I didn’t discount it. And over time, we got to where we could talk, face to face. And there was a glimmer of what once was before. I could see it was worth repairing, the broken pieces. Time had moved on. It couldn’t be what it was before, I figured. The friendship, I mean. But it could be something. Something worth building back up.

And yeah, I was quite aware that there were many people out there who looked at me very strangely as the reconciliation solidified.

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