How Do You Say Good-bye
March 12, 2009 by Lecher.us
As I sit here this afternoon, I am filled with so many different emotions that come from the journey called life. As Courtney already has mentioned before tonight we will be saying good-bye to one of my family’s best friends. I am not sure where I want to take this, I am not sure if I should reminisce about a lifetime of happy memories, or talk about this thing that always has been sitting in the back of my head, and comes out at these particular times. In my short 19 years of life I have been blessed to have only had one significant death in my entire family, that was back in 2004 (I hope that is right, I have such a bad memory), my Great-Grandma “Cookie” died in June and it was the hardest thing that I have ever had to go through in my entire life. To be honest sometimes I wonder why it was so hard, for the simple fact that to be honest I was never that close to Grandma Cookie, in fact there were times when I was younger that I was scared of her! Those of you in the family that are reading this are probably thinking what is the kid talking about? Grandma Cookie scary? What in the heck are you talking about? To be perfectly honest I am not sure and it is kind of beside the point. So I remember going to the hospital that day and walking up to her room. She was laying there in bed, her eyes were open. She was there surrounded by all of her loved ones that had come to say good-bye. Until that moment I did not realize how little I had really known this amazing woman. Grandma passed away later that day and I was devastated. I later realized what was so hard for me was that I never had any “real” memories with her in them. From that moment on, I decided that I was going to have those memories with the people and things I care most about in my life. Grandma taught me one final thing while she was with us, it is that no matter what we all must say good-bye at some point in our life, and we never know when that point will be. It was an interesting lesson that a fourteen year old boy learned one June day, and it is one that he has surely not forgotten. So as I go into tonight, I will be thinking of Grandma-Cookie and that lesson that she taught me, that lesson that is passed down from generation to generation, the lesson of how to say good-bye!
God Bless You Casey, and thank you for all the happiness that you have given to this family!
And God Bless You Grandma Cookie, for teaching me one of life’s most important lessons!
Love to both, and to all of you!
Brandon
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