Why aren't we showering people with compliments and telling how much they mean to us all the time. Why don't we brag a little about our friends, their great traits, what amazing people they are. Why don't we tell our friends what great parents they are, how they inspire us to be better people, the impact they have had on our lives no matter how small. What if we all just laid it all out there all the time and let people know that they mattered to us. I see people and talk to people everyday and I rarely stop and think what that person really means to me, I'm getting better at it because I have been focusing on this lately.
I always think I would love to have my funeral while I was still alive, because I want to know what people have to say about me, not wait till I am dead to hear it. So I am trying, like I said, to let people know what they mean to me a little more. What would I say at their funeral and why don't I tell them those things now.
It's just weird - why not talk positively about people now... why wait?
So.....i took care of a 97 year old woman recently who told me she would do whatever i asked as long as i got her out of the hospital by the weekend because she had to attend her "pre-bereavement party." She decided that when u die, u just "get put in a box or get scattered about somewhere and miss all the people who come to see you" so she was having a party before she died so she could actually see all the people in her life that meant so much to her. Personally, i thought it was a great idea and wondered things were very similar to this post. Remind me, when we are older, that I want to have a party like this lady did too. Thanks for your thoughts.
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