#burning tiger

"Not everything was perfect, though. He was still learning to deal with the guilt he still felt for his past wrongdoings and their ultimate consequence, and that pain, he guessed, was something he could never be rid of, even though the last six months had been better at healing his wounds than the prior several years. He would always imagine what his child would have grown to be like, and what contemplating her growth beside his wife would have felt like, and that was an irreplaceable piece that had been taken from him. He could find all the happiness in the world and he would still have that tingle of pain in his heart. But didn't everyone have that for any loved ones lost along the way?"