A girl died on Friday. I didn't know her, our lives probably never would have crossed. I have one connection to this girl, someone who knew her a few years ago. The girl, was 17. She was pretty, smart, talented. She was a daughter, a sister, a friend, a peer, a student, an acquaintance. I peered over the shoulder of my connection as a memoriam video played on the computer and my heart ached. It ached as I read comments from her friends flash on the screen over portraits of her smiling face. Comments of her loyalty and her friendships. Words of love and loss, heartache and sorrow were displayed from those this girl meant most to. There were a lot. This girl didn't leave this world by accident. She left by choice. I can only speculate she felt lonely, very lonely in a difficult world. So lonely, so......unimportant, that she decided she must go, and so she separated her spirit from her body and left.
Seeing this, I wonder.....IF they had told her that more, reminded her more of her worth to them, to this life, to God....would she have made a different choice? I blame no one. I didn't even know her, or OF her until today. But I have to say, my heart breaks for her. For those who did love her. And it makes me think of my loved ones and of myself. And of moments I have had that were so dark, so lonely..... But it is the love I have for those connected to me that kept my head in the game kept me moving forward, kept me HERE because her choice ISN'T AN OPTION for me. But those thoughts make me want to send a message out there to you and to me: YOU are IMPORTANT. YOU are LOVED and have a WORTH bigger than you can see. Tell those that mean something to you, constantly that they do. And as hard as this is to do, tell YOURSELF you mean something, that YOU have a WORTH a PURPOSE; you are LOVED and CHERISHED. Don't forget it, because, YOU ARE. This life really is a choice.
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