For my best friend it was getting her social security card with her new last name. A new chapter in her life has started. And I texted her this:
Just think it's a new chapter is this book called life. It will have it's up and downs like any good story but the best part is you get to be a part of that story. Write it however you want. :)
Later I got a card from my mom with well wishes about my surgery with some money inside.
And I read a story about my friend's adoption and how some paperwork expired and it's delayed them bringing home their boys.
I realized something about stories today.
We always want to go back to past chapters and change the ending but we can't. The future isn't found in the yellowing of the well worn pages of the past. The future has yet to be written- so we must embrace the present. Remember every laugh, every moment, every memory. Makes those moments the best. That way we won't have any fear of the ending because we lived the very best one.
As this realization settled over me today I was thankful for my life, my story, and this chapter. For the amazing people in it. Over the last week I've come to realize how incredibly important they are, how much I love them and how richly they add to my story.
I have a feeling our stories are turning our pretty awesome.
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