LIVE

What I learned tonight is that people who SURVIVE something are that much more willing to LIVE their LIFE. They smell the roses and taste the flavor of the food, they do the silly dance and wear the funny hat. They LIVE!! I cannot describe the beauty of tonight, hundreds of bags glowing in the silence of the night with only the bag pipes playing. People proudly walking for the love one they lost or the co-worker who survived maybe the neighbor who is battling now. I felt the shift yesterday when I decided it was more important to discuss what a great day it was in the "A" than my troubles, to my "lol" attitude towards the events of my day...

And then I step onto this field with hundreds of people who once had to fight to LIVE and I remember my Grandfather who fought the brave fight, standing tall through his pain without a complaint. I remember his smile and that he made a decision to just LIVE this one Life he was given no matter the outcome or the struggle. We all have our troubles most we can't remember the next year because some how we manage to make it through. So in the words of Jill Scott, "Life doesn't owe us, we owe Life" and our only repayment is to just LIVE!!!