It's funny to look back and reflect on how far you've come in a short period of time.
Five years ago I lost a piece of my heart, someone I wish I could have saved from their own regrets and from an illness that our world still can't cure.
In five years I have found relationships that have changed my world forever, found the true meaning of friendship, and the most loyal and loving friends anyone could have.
I also found the love of my life, a man who makes me strive to be a better woman, and a better partner.
It's intense how one moment in time can alter the way you view things forever.
It alters how you love, how you forget, and most importantly how you forgive.....yourself, for everything.
Hold onto nothing but love, forgive every little fault, let go of unwanted hurt- why we hold hurt that we don't want, I will actually never know, but we do.
Love deeply and endlessly, live passionately.
Always work to live, NEVER live to work- for then monetary happiness rules your heart and suffocates your soul.
I will think of her every day for the rest of my days, some days it will hurt, someways it will make me smile. I will take all of the good she taught me and pass it on wherever I go. She taught me loyalty, and to never give up on something or someone you love. This, I have always felt, is one of my strongest assets.
Five years have passed and I still sometimes want to pick up the phone and call you, five years gone and I'm still in disbelief that something could take down the strongest woman I have ever known.
Mom I will carry your strength as our legacy.
In a year please hold my hand as my life and world change forever, for the better.... You would have loved him and been so very proud of the choices I have made, in five years time.
