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Any time that something bad has happened to me my family has been there to help me pick up the pieces. Now, I want so badly to help my brother and I can’t. Every day he stays by the side of his daughter not knowing if it’s going to be her last.
Each time the family has been called in to be with her, she has bounced back. This last time, of which was the worse, she came through and smiled and said, “I told you I wasn’t going anywhere.”
Many of you have said that I have the gift of writing, but I don’t feel like I do, or else I would be able to write about my niece in a way that would do her justice. I have never seen so much strength in anyone. She has faced so much in her short life and never has she complained.
I can’t seem to wrap my mind around the fact that after all she’s been through that she has to battle cancer. It would be easy to say why, but she doesn’t. It would be easy to give up, but she want.
It has made me stop to think about my own life, and I feel that I’m pale in comparison. I have a healthy body and mind and there is so much that I could be doing. Yet, a lot of that time I use thinking of the past and envying people who have husbands and children at home, who all are still in the stage of life that I once was. I find myself thinking, why am I to be alone.
There is nothing wrong with me thinking back on the past, but I don’t need to dwell there. I need to keep moving forward as anyone does. I need to be busy with today and all the opportunities that it holds. It’s sad when people get stuck in a bad place where they feel insignificant. We all have purpose and value, and some just need to move forward to find it. Don’t dwell in a barren land.
Here’s to the future and new opportunities,
Glenda
