Beautiful people...

As my life is about to take yet another turn, I am reminded how frequently souls come in and out of our lives.

I am realizing that each person plays a part, and those parts are all significant. We may not realize it at the time, but each person's role in our lives can shape who we become.

They can give us strength, love, peace. They can build our confidence, or tear it down. They can fuel our happiness, make us laugh, or make us cry. All of these things, good and bad, are the building blocks of our lives.

Unfortunately, in the hustle and bustle of our daily lives, we often take for granted those who are a part of them. Not necessarily maliciously...we just tend to think that our lives will last forever - that we have plenty of time to say the things we want/should say and do the things we want to do.

If you knew that tomorrow, the people you love, the people you talk to on a daily basis would not be here, what would you do today?

Think about it for a minute...

Pick six people. I don't care who. Just six people who are right now, a very important part of your life. Now, imagine that they are gone. You will never have another chance to talk to them...to hug them...to laugh with them...to cry with them...to kiss them. What would you do today?

Would you accept that lunch invite you didn't have time for yesterday?

Would you listen just a little bit closer when they talked, just to hear their voice?

Would you hold them just a little bit longer? So long that you felt like one person?

Would you kiss them quickly, out of habit, or would you kiss them like the very taste of their lips gave you life?

Would you tell them how much they mean to you, even if it terrified you?

Life is fragile. It is fleeting. Walk through life with this in mind...like every moment could be the last. Embrace it. Love it.

It is beautiful.

Life is beautiful because of the people in it.