Ice Cream and Regrets

When I was scrolling Reddit, I found this story that just broke me.

This guy said when he was a kid, his dad would take him out for ice cream every Friday.

Just them. No siblings, no stress — just thirty minutes where he got to feel like

the most important person in the world. Then he grows up, moves out, life gets busy.

And one day he realizes… he hasn’t talked to his dad in almost a year. So he calls him

— and his dad picks up immediately, like he’d been waiting by the phone. They talk,

they laugh, and right before they hang up, his dad goes, “Hey,

maybe next Friday we can get ice cream again. Like old times.” But the guy says