Just Reminiscing

The following post is based on my own perception. Everyone has his or her own, and I would love to hear yours.

Veronica was my very best friend of all time. She is (was?) the most unique person I know. People tell me I'm unique pretty often--weird, eccentric, off-the-wall, you name it--but they have no idea what unique is until they meet Verny. They also have no idea how much of that uniqueness was gifted to me in knowing Veronica so closely.

Verny was an extraordinary person to know. Everything she did was always with her full effort and attention, and she didn't expect anything less than that of herself. It was like, if she was going to put her name on something she really wanted to show her true colors in it, and fully represent her capabilities. There was no "sort of" in Veronica's vocabulary. She didn't talk about doing things, she just did them. An example of this is when she decided to get a tattoo. I was surprised, because she'd never even mentioned the idea of a tattoo to me, and one day I check my email and find a picture of it! She loved it to bits and never regretted it for a moment. Of course like any young woman, she was also jittery about making sure her parents didn't see it, which they, of course, did. I find those moments cute about Verny, when she is caught doing something innocently rebellious. She might get super worked up about it, but an hour or two later it is all in good humor, and we get to laugh about it.

I will miss Veronica's presence, at least the sort that we are familiar with, until I take my last breath. I am sure that I will think about her in those last moments, and maybe I will even see her translucently standing beside me with a hitchhiker's thumb as we take our last hike into the next life.

What things do you see, experience, smell, think of, etc throughout your day, or even on occasion, that remind you of Veronica? I'll bet several of us, including myself, see Veronica in just about everything we encounter. But especially I am reminded of her when I see animals, or movies that we liked (especially Disney movies, as it wasn't uncommon for us to be belting the songs when riding in her car), and when I am in serene places near water. We loved exploring nature, as if we were on some Animal Planet show looking for the next new species.

That's all from the Ne. I hope everyone has had a charming Wednesday.