LIVE LIFE!

"You don't get to choose how you're going to die.  Or when.  You can only decide how you're going to live.  Now."
Joan Baez

PEOPLE COME AND THEY GO

In the last week alone, I've had several experiences where people with whom I have had frequent contact over the last few years have gone to places unknown.  No, they didn't die.  They just left the places of employment where I always used to see them.  Maybe because these all happened within such a short span of time, I don't know, but their absences have affected me more than I would have ever imagined they would.  I feel a void that surprises even myself.  They were all only acquaintances, not even friends, but I saw them enough that I really enjoyed their company every time we came into contact with one another.  Here one minute and gone the next.  Isn't that how life is?  Of course it is, but that doesn't lessen this bit of emptiness I feel that I will never see these people again.  I wish them well, wherever their paths may lead them.