Something I Learned Today

     I just kinda started thinking about this while I was reading 'Looking For Alaska' by John Green. I really love his books.

     If there is a person special and incredible enough that they are considered to be someone you love - hold on to them quickly and for as long as you can, and tell them exactly how you feel about them. There is no time for beating around the bush, for playing games and stringing people along, for hiding your feelings. People die in the most ordinary circumstances, whether they are a powerful presence or not. Whether they are a hurricane or a drizzle.
     Death is not specific, and it does not pick and chose, you die when you die and unless you kill yourself (which is never an option) there is no way to dictate how or when that will be. It doesn't matter how you lived your life or what kind of people you'll leave behind, death will take you whenever and wherever it wants. One minute you could be kissing someone, the next you could be wiped from existence.
     Death does not care who you'l leave behind or how much they will miss you, it will take you either way. You cannot live without leaving sentiments to the people you love, because the next time you blink, they could be gone. Living one instant, and never breathing another breath the next. There is no time to not speak your piece, there is no room for second guessing. There is only love, and life, and death. You have to live the first two to the best of your ability because you never know when the third will come.
     There is no time for all we want to do. That is the curse of life and death. So with the time we do have, of it we must make the best and love and live with everything we have.
     Life is like a butterfly; fleeting, fast, unique, and beautiful, and you don't understand just how special and gorgeous it is until it's gone.
     I don't know, I was just thinking today about how unusual it is that someone could be so alive one minute and so...not alive the next. And the idea of not being alive and leaving loose ends and leaving people behind not knowing how much you loved them is a horrible idea to me.
xx~Emily

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