My friend Kim sent me an email tonight and it was really cool. It was a forward and Kim almost never forwards stuff, so I knew it would be good. It was good. It was mostly about attitude and how you see life or how you can choose to view things, just stuff like that. I loved all of it but one part especially stood out for me….
It may be the last time you see them"
because of this sentiment.
Thanksgiving day, my uncle left his family to run to the store….he was coming
right back, he was just running out to grab something real quick…he got in a
car wreck on the way and died. I wasn't super close to this uncle so it wasn't a
life altering loss for me, but it was a life defining loss. It was when I
realized how quick life can be taken from you, how in the blink of an eye, your life can be completely changed from what you thought it would be. From that moment on, I have never
said goodbye to anyone I love. Not when I hang up, not when I leave
them…never. And it's why I am so big on saying I
love you to the people I love when I hang up or leave them.You really just never know what can happen and I learned that at 14 years
old.
Now some of the people I love aren't big on saying "I love you". Or they don't have the same hang up with saying it that I have and that is okay with me. It's an effort sometimes, to not say it…but I don't like putting someone on the spot. Like if I say it, they will feel like they have to say it back. So with the people I love that are like, I respect the way they are and don't say it every time.
But even if I don't say "I love you" to those people every time…..I still never, ever say goodbye.
Anything But Gray 
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