perspective.

There are people in the world that get overwhelmed easily. I'm one of them. Sometimes, as hard as I try not to, I sweat the small stuff. And unfortunately I loose sight of what's real and what's important.

One of my best friends lost someone very close to her yesterday. Since I heard the news, I've been through a series of emotions. First, shock. Followed closely by disbelief. Now, anger, which is rapidly morphing into sadness. Tragedy, aside from being heartbreaking, is unfair. It makes you question why we're here, why some things are simply not just. I'm not religious, but I can't dismiss my hope for a sweetness beyond this life. Maybe it's a selfish human need for comfort when your insides ache from sadness, but I can't let that hope go.

Right now, all I can think of is my dear, dear friend and the pain she must be feeling. She is such a strong, smart, faithful woman, but in times like these those attributes don't really matter because even the strongest break down. Even the strongest are human.

I guess I felt the need to put this on here because it has been so humbling to me, it has realigned my perspective to evaluate how precious life is. All the worry of the weight of the world is crushed by sorrow of a deeper kind when you loose someone. And you realize the insignificance of the daily battles you fight. At least you have to power to wake up and fight them.

So, in tribute to a beautiful life that was simply cut too short, may all of us wake up each morning with joy and hope and never loose it along the way.

Rest in peace, beautiful girl.