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Learning How To Say Goodbye

Two weeks Left to say I love you 14 days left To hold you 336 hours Left to watch as you sleep 20,160 minutes Left to breathe in the air that fills my lungs and enjoy the smallest moments Do you ever think about the way the wind hits your face? The way the laughter sounds from the bellies of the kids you created? The most beautiful moments in the silence of a stillfull night The sounds of people you love sleeping Watching them as they drift into a sleepful peace Wondering how you could ever leave? Do you ever think about the touch of their skin/face and the little details of their eyes, chin, nose? How you long to watch them smile Hear them talk and listen to their wonderful voice? How do you measure every single precious moment you have lived up too? If you had two weeks left to live, how would you celebrate/cherish the time you were given. How would you enjoy every second knowing that death awaits How do you say I never want to leave you, but I have to. Our time comes eventually, it’s easy to think, this will never happen to me. But your time comes, rather slowly or in a quick moment. No time should pass without the given opportunity to say I love you & hold your love ones closely. Slow the busy- slow down for one moment Breathe one deep breathe Be thankful, that you don’t have only two weeks left to live.

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