The Year of Goodbye
The year of 2024 has been the year of death and goodbye. There are 12 months in a year, we just started December, and the number of people who meant something to me who we said our final goodbye's to is currently 11, ELEVEN. I'm going to spend the next month on pins and needles just trying to figure out if we hit 12. That's a lot of death. One person I remember driving home from a vacation and getting the news. One I knew was sick and was going to go. One person, had cut me out of her life years ago, but on legal paperwork I was the last one listed, and I wrote her obituary. One person who passed, it was the closing to a horrible rotten chapter that I don't have to live through anymore. A few were sudden and surprising. A few lost their battles to addictions. This is the year I walk away from far more jaded then I started. This is the year on top of losing people to death, friendships were severed, lines were crossed, and there is no going back. I am far to grown to ...