Join Me and Celebrate

Lately I have had to acknowledge, face-to-face, that I need to undergo an attitude change. I have a lot to be thankful for, in the face of life's tragedies, yet I've let missing Verny pull me under a lot in the last few months. Plainly said: It is hard to explore this life in a good light when your best light (Veronica) you can no longer see. Sometimes, at this very moment for instance, I think about my best friend for the blink of an eye, and suddenly all the color seems drained from the world. I'm an underdog without my superhero to follow, or a melody without its harmony.

I have let that empty feeling, for a time, overwhelm and darken my thoughts, and I suspect that some of you reading this may have done so at some point or another, as well. When I constructed my eulogy, I believed in what I said, and it is only fair that if I'm going to issue advise to others, that I follow it as well.

What I know for certain is this: That we are all blessed that Veronica was in our lives at all. How enriched we are to have known her to the extent that we did. She has changed each and every one of us in ways that we will never be able to completely know, because her impact as a righteous human being, towards anyone from loved-one to stranger, was immense and all-encompassing. What a legacy she left us with, a legacy that I'm sure she expects us to continue on.

I have created a pact with myself to acknowledge daily why I am so lucky, thankful, and blessed to have had Verny accompany me on several adventures in my life, and I'd like to invite everyone else to share in that endeavor by posting those reasons, here on this blog. Whatever you write can be as simple or as intricate as you like, just so long as you are able to reach yourself in knowing that you haven't a reason to be sad, and every reason to be happy about Veronica's existence.

:)