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Challenging Life? Remembrance and Realized Regret Are Why You Should Tell Your Beloved: “I Love You.”
Some thoughts on what you will think and feel when it’s too late to speak
Love is like the sky, it’s there when we don’t even notice
It was my late mother’s birthday the other day.
“I love you mother.”
Now that you are dead and gone, and it is too late to tell you how very much, I just want to say it out loud. But, to whom?
I lay awake sometimes, thinking of all the things I wish we had talked about.
Maybe in writing this, somehow the words can go from my heart, through my muddy mire of mind, through to keyboard, then a screen. Once on a stranger’s screen, the thought of telling someone they are loved will filter through into someone’s voice. Then, although I may never see you again (No definitive heaven!), at least I will have the comfort of knowing a miracle has occurred.
And miracles are no small thing.
What could it benefit someone, if they knew they should speak their heart? I think there are as many answers are there are people. Nevertheless, mom, I think there are some categories that could and should be…