You are the most precious thing!

Hey Y’all — I know I have not posted in more than a week. I promise I have countless drafts to catch up on, it has just been one of those times in life where it feels like this one day has been 3000 hours long. Life happens — we do the best we can! This message though — I needed to get out, even at the 2999th hour! these words have all been said before, even by myself. But, they are important and they are about to pour like water out of my fingertips…

So, I was talking to a friend, catching up, and we were discussing a very heavy topic that I recently went through. I said, “There will forever be a before and after that day making me acutely aware of the sensitivity I now have towards this person and the topic.”

She said, “Isn’t that real life though? That rawness of knowing we could lose someone or experience a trauma in the blink of an eye. The reality is that it is possible at any given time, we just live taking it for granted a lot the time.”

This statement brought a flood of tears and is so fucking true. A snap reminder. We exist knowing at any time we could suffer or lose someone whether permanently or in the form of a break. At the exact same time, we tend to overlook the idea that it would actually happen.

The before that day is really no different than the day after, it is simply my knowledge of it, the…