This isn’t earth-shattering to me personally, but it’s an interesting story.
I’m still in California, and I was at a friend’s house hanging with him, his wife, and his oh so entertaining son. My mother called twice, and both times I had to let the call pass. So I sent a text asking if it was important, and she said to take my time.
Turns out she had an interesting story. She asked me if I remembered a friend of her father’s. I did not, and I asked why she asked. Well, it turned out that his daughter died, a woman my mother had known her whole life.
You may have heard about it.
(Behave, Bol.)
What a horrible way to find out how small the world is–in the form of a reminder of how short our time can be.
‘Til the other side, Dr. West.
And yes, I know the circumstances surrounding her death, but it isn’t my place to report it right now. I’d simply recommend taking this time to call your mom and tell her you love her. Or anyone else, for that matter.
As many of you know, one of the things that drives me is the passing of my best friend in college. Still hits me to this day. That said, I’ve managed to cope pretty well. The only reason that happened was because, for reasons that must have been divine, I told him how much I cared about him two days before he died. No real provocation, no indicator of how short his time was. Just felt like something to do at the time.
I’m lucky that feeling hit me when it did.
So call your folks. Chances are, they don’t know what you’ve got to say.
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tis true.
i felt compelled to call my folx after i heard.
hearing about the passing of his mom just made me really sad. i pray for his strength and the strength of his family.
God bless her life.
I talk to my mom every week, and I have to let her know that nothing is wrong. It drives me crazy, but it’s nice to know that she is one of the few people on this earth who truly cares if I am alive or dead. We’ve been going thru this for years and the routine doesn’t change. There’s a certain comfort in that. There are others I care about in life–you can best believe I will let them know.
Thanks for the reminder.
I’ve lost too many people all of a sudden not know the importance of one phone call, just to let them know how much you love them.
In the past 4 years 2 best friends and a sister… I’ve come to the conclusion that you can never fully recover, I’ve tried.
My Deepest Sympathy goes out to Kanye and his family.
Coming from someone that lost a parent, that pain never leaves you no matter how much time passes. Kanye has my deepest sympathy.
Life has a strange and jacked up way of showing you just how small and powerless us human beings really are. That being said, don’t burn bridges with your fam because the love from your fam is the most powerful force in this world…Trust, I know.