Go Hug Your Kids
I brought my eldest home from college a couple of days ago (Tuesday). Drove three hours, helped him clean his room (I won’t go into what a dorm suite of four young men looks like after two semesters!) and then gladly brought him home. We enjoyed both our conversation and our silence on the trip.
Yesterday he got the news that a classmate from high school had died and a dorm neighbor from college had been found dead the day after he left. We don’t have details on either one yet, but the tragedy is the same.
I was reminded of a couple of tragic deaths during my teen years of two young men. One from a car accident and one by his own hand. Both deaths had a very big impact on me.
Tragedies such as this reminds me how precious life is and our time together with friends and family should not be regarded lightly.
Go hug your kids (physically or verbally) today.
When you're young you feel immortal – until something like that happens. So sad.
Aw Sheila that really is a shame. I remember a boyfriend from High School and I re-united at a restaurant before I went to college. I was a waitress. When I saw him I knew he was the boyfriend I cared for the most. He was riding a motorcycle up to Salt Lake in Utah and promised he'd come back for me. Out of the blue I heard he died in an accident. It's a really weird feeling and so sad. Life is fragile.