i have so much to say, i don't even know where to start, and i don't even know if i should, because the jumbled thoughts don't really go together. earlier today i thought about how i need to write a post about emory's exploding vocabulary, and how camryn lost another front tooth and has a gaping hole in the front of her mouth, and about the book i'm reading for the 3rd time in a month because it is totally changing my life. but all of those posts will have to happen some other time b/c today, at the highschool i graduated from, a kid walked in and shot the vice principal and the principal. the VP was an english teacher when i was there. she died from her wounds. the principal is the brother of friends of ours from church. it all just hit a little too close to home.
a friend of ours leaves for afghanistan in the morning. i was thinking today that i don't think i've ever said goodbye to someone and felt like "wow, i don't know if i'll see you again" and it dawned on me that someone doesn't have to go to afghanistan for us to not know if we'll see them again. i say good bye to several people a day, and i don't KNOW that i will see them again. i just assume i will. no one thought they were going to go to work/school today and get shot/put in a code red lock down.
i know i'm not saying anything we haven't all heard before. everyone's heard "you're not promised another day" but no one really believes it. i'm not sure if i would want to live like that anyways.
a day like today really puts things into perspective, and i just hope i don't forget.
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wish i would have read this before we got together today so we could talk about what you are processing. i heard about all that today. so sobering. maybe we can talk in the morning.
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