Perspective
Losing someone has a way of putting everything into perspective. It’s amazing how many emotions come to light when you are dealing with the death of a loved one. Things you never even realized you felt come spilling over and the only thing you can do is turn to the rest of your loved ones and truly love them.
In times like these, everything gets really hectic and emotions run high. There are arrangements to be made and loose ends to tie up and everyone has an opinion about how things should happen. But once everything is in place, and the goodbyes have been said and the memories have been relived, things start to come to perspective. For me, I realized just how important my family is to me. We tend to take people and things for granted. We just know that they will be here with us forever, so yeah, I’ll call Nana next week when I get some time, but there are hard core moments like these that show and prove that life is definitely not like that. Each moment and day we have to tell someone we love them is precious. In times like these, petty arguments and grudges just don’t seem important anymore. Not speaking to someone for years because you are mad at them, just doesn’t seem to make sense. What do we honestly gain from being mad? And the truth is, for the most part, after a while, we forget what we are mad about in the first place. Life is too short and relationships are too precious to let pride take over. Sometimes we just need to get over ourselves and learn to be humble. I’m sorry is hard thing to say, but you have to wonder if the relationship you will gain from speaking those two words is more valuable than being able to say, I was right.
