"I'm still here because I still ache for some of the people who have gone, and I don't want to do that to anyone who loves me."
This one. I lost a cousin, and I know I cannot do that to his sister or to our other family.
For me, I'm here because I promised I'd talk if it ever got to that stage, and there is noone who wouldn't stop and talk, and noone who wouldn't have something better to do but put it to one side anyway.
I'm here because a stranger with a semicolon tattoo reminded me that actually, people care.
On a different note, thank you for "Because the stories I tell matter to people, sometimes more than I could ever have dreamed." My father would have loved Toby. Reading Toby makes him feel close, which he wasn't for years before he actually died. Thank you for that.
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Date: 2015-09-11 07:08 pm (UTC)This one. I lost a cousin, and I know I cannot do that to his sister or to our other family.
For me, I'm here because I promised I'd talk if it ever got to that stage, and there is noone who wouldn't stop and talk, and noone who wouldn't have something better to do but put it to one side anyway.
I'm here because a stranger with a semicolon tattoo reminded me that actually, people care.
On a different note, thank you for "Because the stories I tell matter to people, sometimes more than I could ever have dreamed." My father would have loved Toby. Reading Toby makes him feel close, which he wasn't for years before he actually died. Thank you for that.