[blueerica]

Thanks everyone for the sentiments.

I had a feeling that my sisters (half, it was their grandfather who passed) weren't told, so I delivered the news last night. It was odd, though, since they barely knew him. They were saddened as much by the loss, but from losing something they were never given the chance to have.

It's strange how life's circumstances can create distances where there didn't need to be any. Petty differences easily become 'more important' than the big picture, and again, the innocent suffer from it. It's impossible to have it all, but to have the chance robbed from you when you're just a child. I guess I'm hurting a bit for them.

On a tangent, J and I were out to dinner and an older man randomly came up and gave me a compliment, then told us (essentially) to not take one another for granted. He didn't seem crazy, just distraught - he recently lost his wife who was putting a bandaid on him one minute and a few minutes later she was gone.

You can't make life any longer to give yourself that second chance... later... to tell someone you love them, to make something right, to be everything you can. Do it now. There will be the future, but there's always today.

*sigh*