By Donelle 
Date: 12 September 2000

A memory

My dear friend Jackie passed away.  
She was a wonderful woman and mother.  
I never had a mother and she was quite the chatter with me.  
I'm only 23 and she died the day after her birthday...
Well she was brain dead and slipped into a coma.
the doctors didn't say she was dead until 1 week of suffering in the ICU unit

anyway, thats not my point....
my point is that she's been here on this earth from august 21,1940 
to august 28,2000...
and if you think about it , thats not a long time , 
that means that I've been here for 23 Christmas'....
I might only have 54 Christmas' left... 
and thats sure not a lot.
what am i to do, i want to start a family, but i can't find anyone that i want to reproduce with , well atleast anyone worthy of this.
but i'm in a hurry because when will my time come to leave this earth, will anyone miss me? will anyone remember?  will anyone care?
Its so sad that we can feel good and healthy and well and go to work, and the next day your not even here.
I miss Jackie.  What a wonderful woman.  
Part of Psalm 121, and i'm not as religious as I should be, but this is a short sentence that makes me feel a little better:
" The Lord shall watch over your going out and your coming in from this time forth forevermore."
What a small amount of words, that makes everything almost better.  Well not really.  Cherish those around you and make peace before your day is over.  I will never want to regret someone's leaving of this earth without an  owed apology from myself.  
I'll be on Christmas #24 this year, I'm 34% there.....