It's been a year since life in the Walden family changed so suddenly. It's been a year since a sweet angel was born, so small and so powerful, that she was able to change the way each of us has viewed life...a life so meaningful that she made us all better people--more patient and understanding, more unconditionally loving, and stronger as a family unit. As if we don't think of her every day as it is, these last few have really driven home how much things have changed this past year. Here is what I have learned:
Everything happens for a reason. Nothing happens by chance or by means of good or bad luck. Illness, death, injury, love, lost moments of true greatness and sheer stupidity all occur to test the limits of your soul. Without these small tests, life would be like a smoothly paved, straight, flat road to nowhere. Even in pain, we are able to find our purposes.
If someone hurts you, betrays you , or breaks you heart, forgive them. Even if you don't want to, just do it. You'll feel better. There just isn't enough time for nonsense.
If someone loves you, love them back unconditionally, not only because they love you, but because they are opening your heart and eyes to things you would have never seen or felt without them.
Make every day count. Appreciate every moment and take from it everything that you possibly can, for you may never be able to experience it again. Silliness isn't really silly at all.
Talk to people you have never talked to before. Listen. Hold your head up because you have every right to. Create your own life and then go out and live it.
Family is the beginning and end of all things. Others come and go, but our family...we're tied together for life. Every little bump along the way (even the major ones) rattles us, but in the end, each one is the reason we hold on to each other a little tighter, can know what the other is feeling in just a look, laugh too loud at family jokes, and really appreciate this little life we have.
And Pretty Little Cora Anne, an angel in every sense (a REAL one, as Patrick says), taught all of this in a week.
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