I personally have gone through some life changing events that have made me see that i needed to look at life through different glasses so to speak and made me realize that i needed to make some life changing decisions for the better. I have a fuller understanding me how precious my family is, how important true friendship really is and how selfish most of people really are day to day without even knowing it.  I read this article and it is bang on the money as to what life really is all about. Sit back, relax, and enjoy!I often wondered who it was who said that "Life is what happens to you
while you're busy making other plans." Two clicks away and all roads
pointed to John Lennon. Really? Nah....really? So I dug a little
deeper and learned it was first published in a 1957 Reader's Digest and
at that time it was linked to Allen Saunders. No matter what those are
twelve words of truth and it really doesn't matter who said them.
That's just how universal knowledge works. It resonates. It clicks the
light on. It affirms the journey.
Life, it's been an interesting journey to say the least these past few
weeks. Life has definitely been 'happening.' I've been deeply moved
watching the resilience of the human spirit in the news as our country's
natural disasters tear families and communities apart. I felt
goosebumps listening to strangers huddled together in a freezer in
Missouri as a tornado ripped through the store they were in. In what
were thought to be their final moments here, in the darkness, between
strangers, there were words of reassurance and love. Read that
again....a show of LOVE between perfect strangers. Love, the one thing
that mattered when all else was disappearing.  My heart has ached watching from afar an old school/neighborhood friend
grieve the sudden and unexpected loss of her thirty-four year old
brother in an automobile accident. The first time I watched her grieve
in this way we were but young girls in middle school when she lost her
mom. To see her family go through this new and sudden loss unsettled
me. I know that many a family see multiple heartaches in their
lifetimes. I know that there are no words that can really change that
newly formed forever hole. I also know that when such heartache comes
that these families need and want nothing but love.
In this specific situation I hadn't seen my friend's brother in person
since he was a boy but even then he left a very distinct impression on
me. Back then he was forever making other people laugh. We'd caught up
to each other on Facebook in February 2010. Since that time I'd caught
up to the artist he'd become, the lives he was touching and the life he
was building. Despite the loss in his childhood, despite the hole that
was forever there for him and four siblings, he kept on keeping on and
he walked his journey in love. The afternoon before he passed another
old high school friend I'd just recently connected with the day before
had brought up his name in an exchange of whom do you still keep up with
questions as we chatted by phone. It was actually the first time in
months his name came up for he wasn't really active on FB. To learn
Friday afternoon that he'd passed that morning, well, we were both
speechless. Yet another bold reminder of how life happens.  So I just want to remind you that life
is beyond precious and fleeting. Your time here is a gift. The lives
you touch and the difference you make is what lives on after you're
gone. Make your mark, follow your path, and listen to the universe
when it corrects your course. Tomorrow is not promised. Make that
call. Extend your smile, your hand, your time. Tell them you love
them and make each moment count. Remember that you have a purpose and
that purpose is love. Know your worth, you are priceless to someone. Till next time:) A. Picasso |
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