This is a letter to all of our friends. It's about where we are in our everyday lives right now: So often in life we feel that there will always be time to enjoy the people who are the most important to us: Those whose smiles and laughs we treasure although we are sometimes miles - and even, for some, continents away from those who are dearest to us.
Somehow, in our desire to live life fully - and in the present, we can become a little complacent about difficulties that we know are coming. Lives that are ending, those whose have just ended very unexpectedly. A friend of mine recently told me, upon hearing of the death of my Aunt (the oldest living relative on my late father's side and a woman who I loved and admired very much; that these things happen in threes.
Although I have heard this many times, and I know that the friend didn't mean it in a negative way; that "concept" really gave me pause.
Even from where I sit today, with another family member close by and struggling with a terminal health issue, with the hum and intermittent expulsion of air from the pump of an oxygen apparatus, I can't bring myself to subscribe to such a negative, old wives-tale type theory.
Although one day, life will be different and more of the people who have meant so much to me will be gone from this life on Earth,
My memories of these wonderful people will live on.
The way that they lived will live on
As will the way that I live BECAUSE of them, live on.
One day, although I, myself, may not get around much anymore (for who really knows what tomorrow will bring), I will treasure the time that I spent with family today - as I will treasure receiving the message that a sweet couple that we know is expecting their first child - a little girl to be born on January 7, 2011.
Although, one day, we won't get around much anymore, we will have shared in the lives of some wonderful people and that is the most ordianary, yet extraordinary of blessings.
--Sara
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