I Wish…

I wish the flowers never faded.

I wish the grass was always green.

I wish happiness did not feel fleeting.

I wish that joy always outweighed sorrow.

I wish people would never have to feel the pain of the loss of a much loved family member.

I wish three childhood friends didn’t each have to lose a parent in an eight month span. Each four months after the other.

I wish each of us hadn’t had to make that heartbreaking trip to Prince George to face the loss and try to discover how to move forward while missing such a huge component of our respective lives.

I wish for comfort to us all. I can’t help but cry for their losses as mine is still so fresh.

There is a bitter irony that I posted “The Sign” on Tuesday, the day my old friend lost her own mother in that same city.

Lives drift apart over time, why do events like these have to be the things that wrench us back to the past?

Death is the ultimate recycler in so many different ways.

This daisy of for all of my friends who have lost a parent, a child, a sibling, a spouse…

Hugs.

(113 Photographs in 2013 – #112 – I Wish…)