more than words can say

I don't know why I went into the hardware store today but I did. I wasn't looking for anything in particular nor did I need anything but I found this card. The photo drew me in but the words kept me. *

"Some people will be missed more than words can say.

[open card]

And more than hearts should have to feel."

* I don't personally know anyone who died recently. **
** However, this card doesn't need to be taken literally either.

Dying Young

On a drive anything can happen. The wheels took me to a store. I found an old '91 movie called "Dying Young." Essentially it's about a man who is dying of lukemia, who just wants to live a normal life. He lies and says he is getting better but he isn't. He does not want to die alone or in a hospital but to experience being alive with real love.

Movie or not, cancer is something that many struggle with some place, somewhere all the time. In the most deparate of times people get their strength, their courage from the oddest places. How long does he live? That's not the point. The point is that he lived. The whole plot and themes revolve around the fact that cancer does not affect just one life. Rather than fear hope anymore, he clutches on until the end however and whenever his life may end. She does not leave.

Sometimes life gets tough and you want to quit but then again those times are what allow us to really see and appreciate what we have. It's not that their love was more perfect or just some dramatized hollywood storytale -- these characters, these people, went through enough pain that their character was tested and sensitivity to the wonderful things hightened. This sensitivity is just a perspective I saw. It's what I enjoyed most in this movie. It's neither sad nor happy; it just is.