By Bob Perks © 2001
"You are worth more than all the money in the world!"
"I wouldn't trade you for nothing!"
"You're more valuable than gold!"
"Indispensable!"
Gee, it must be somebody important. Bill Gates? President
Bush?
No, it's usually the person who you least pay attention to every
day. It's the person in your life whom you take for granted. It's
the one who is just always there as part of the background in your
hurried little life.
It's your best friend. It's your neighbor. It's most likely someone
even closer than that. Mom. Dad. Husband. Wife. Brother. Sister.
Child.
"Oh, they know I love them. They know how important they are to me.
God, what would I do without them?"
I don't know. But pray that you never find out.
You see just this week I received wonderful heartfelt messages from
people who have had their lives turned upside down because that
person I described in the beginning of this message is gone.
Dead. Divorced. Run away. In a coma.
Left behind are people saying wonderful things about them and they
aren't there to hear it. Remaining here are people wondering what
hit them because now they feel so empty and lost because of that
void left by their absence.
With it all, the most tragic part of it all, the heaviest burden of
it all ... regret!
"I know I should have told them more often."
"If only I knew this was going to happen I would have been more
attentive."
"You know one day we were planning to..."
Petty, stupid reasons about being too busy, not aware, miles
separated us, they never told me, I always thought they knew, he
was so healthy, I didn't know she was depressed, I just
figured...
Regret
by Bob Perks
I thought you'd always be there
Just a touch away
I tried to say I love you
I meant to every day
But you know how the world is
With work and time and such
I always knew I needed you
I didn't know how much.
I shouldn't have to say another word to get my point across. But
here are the words of one Mother who wrote to me:
"He was born and gone in a span of 18 years. But it seems like a
second in time. I blinked and he was gone. They say a car suddenly
pulled in front of him. It took a second for my whole world to turn
upside down. I never realized how valuable time was. Because it
would have taken me just a second to say "I love you!" that day. I
didn't. I didn't take the time to tell him."
So, do you have a second?
"I believe in you!"
