Monday, August 30, 2010

A Proper Good-bye

How do I start to explain my thoughts today?  I just went up to the "fourth floor" to give the cats some water.  I looked at the room and saw things Ray had placed there when he cleaned it up last year.  He was trying to make it look more cozy.  Then I thought....how can he be gone?  It is so wierd.  I live my life.  I have accepted his loss, but sometimes it is so unbelievable.  A person so full of life and such a huge part of my life is gone in an instant. 

As I've said before, I am so regretful for taking his presence in my life for granted.  After we were together for so many years I just took for granted the fact that he was there and didn't "REALLY" appreciate everything about him.  It is so easy to do.  I just accepted the false reality that he would be there until we got real old and we were prepared for death.  I will never do that about anybody again.  I'm not saying that I will go around with the thought that everybody around me may die tomorrow, but I won't take people's presence in my life for granted.  I want to appreciate everything about the people in my life.  Why didn't I learn this lesson sooner?  I look at pictures of Ray and just want to be with him one more time.  To say a proper good-bye.  That is impossible I know, but I do know that Ray was a positive influence on my life.  I love him.  - Jimmy

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