I decided to follow the crowd...

I decided to follow the crowd and start blogging. I don't think I could have chosen any better of a day than this one. It's been five years since my Uncle Jeffey passed away, but it feels like it was only yesterday. I remember where I was, I remember the sight, and I remember the feeling. Those don't just disappear. My Mom always says that once you've seen it, you will never forget it. It's always going to be in your mind. She generally isn't talking about something like that, but the same principal goes. The sight of my family in mourning will never leave my mind. Just like the feeling of my Daddy holding me that day won't ever go away. He doesn't know this but I'm sure he'll find out... That feeling is the feeling I hold onto whenever it really feels like life is getting me down. When it feels like nothing is going my way and I'm up against a brick wall... That's the feeling that keeps me going. The one thing I try desperately to remember everyday is that this life isn't meaningless. I know my parents and my family think I don't care at all for religion, but I do. I just think about it in a different light than they do. Nothing has ever given me more comfort than knowing that my cherished ones that have passed away are not gone forever. It's like the quote i posted on my facebook earlier today.
Life is eternal, and love is immortal,
and death is only a horizon;
and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.
-Rossiter Worthington Raymond
They will always live on. It may not be in the flesh, we may not be able to see them, but they're always going to be here. Who says that they don't live on through our hearts?
To live in hearts we leave behind,
Is not to die.
-Thomas Campbell
I will always remember. We will always remember. So to me, no one is truly dead. They're just waiting to be remembered, and then they'll live again. If only in our hearts.