Helping
What I've spent my morning thinking:
How can you help someone who doesn't want to be helped?
Sitting on the sideline is slowly but surely killing you both.
But any time you try to help - you get shot down, shut out. (because he's older than you so clearly "knows better")
It's not even like he's your child, so slapping him over the head and forcing him to do the right thing is out of the question too.
You're 100% certain he will benifit from the proposed changes and it will improve his life in countless ways. (not just this life)
Yet all can do is watch "what could have been" get flushed down the pan.