makes you think

Last night I spent some quality time with a good friend. We always have those conversations that make you think… you know the kind that make you look at your life and love it while you want to change things, and appreciate things, and take more adventures. We have a lot of things in common, but what makes us most alike is our family. We are by no means related, but we have a LOT of things in common when it comes to how we were raised and the important of family in our lives. We are both freakishly close to BOTH of our parents… we both talk to both our mom and dad at least once a day. We are both completely spoiled (and admit to it) with attention and love from our parents… seriously they would do ANYTHING for us, the kind of parents that would fly to wherever we are at a moments notice because we said needed them (whatever the reason, or whatever is going on in their lives at the time). We were also raised far away from extended family and have “fake” families that our parents have built for us; these are the ppl we have spent every Christmas, New Year, Thanksgiving, Easter, and birthday with…. The ppl we know are so proud of us whenever anything go right in our lives and the ppl that will support us whenever anything goes wrong… Talking to my friend ALWAYS makes me to glad and feel sooo lucky for having so much support and love around me.

The main topic of conversation last night was that her grandmother had just passed away. This is something her family had been preparing for months and there is NOTHING that she regrets about her relationship with her, but it is always hard when that sort of thing happens. It got me to thinking about my relationship with my grandmother, and everyone else for that matter. I am close to my grandmother, I talk to her on the phone and write her letters…. But in all honesty I don’t feel like that is enough, she has done SOOO much for me, and I know she wants nothing but my happiness in return. But my goal at the moment is to find a way to share my happiness with her…. Not just talking to her and sending her pictures like I do now… I need to find everyway possible to do what I can so that I too can have no regrets when I have to say goodbye.