I thought about writing a letter to bad customers, and people who are in general mean, or ignorant... but I decided to write a different kind of letter. This may be kind of a tear jerker, so if you aren't into super sad/depressing blogs, you might not want to read this.
Dear Granny (my great grandmother who died around 5 years ago),
I've been thinking about you a lot lately. I've been thinking about how amazing of a woman you were. You were a spit-fire lady, and didn't take any shit off of anyone. Even in your frail state near the end, you were easily one of the strongest women I've ever known.
You were 20 years old when you married Grandpa. You took on more responsibility than anyone I know when he went into war and you had to provide for your children and work all along. You made tough decisions that always turned out to be the right ones. You upheld your morals and shaped mine today.
When I think about you, I hope that you would have been proud of me... of the decisions I've made, of the people I love, and who I am. I think that you might understand me better than some of the people I'm closest to now.
I still think about that time we laughed so hard in the kitchen until we were crying and everyone looked at us like we were crazy, no one thought it was funny except for us. At your funeral, you weren't even a wisp of the woman I knew, I couldn't even look in your casket. I was broken-hearted. I was so upset that I didn't get to spend as much time with you as I would have liked. Even now, I still regret that we lived so far away, but in retrospect, the time we spent together was made even more precious because of the distance.
I miss you everyday.
Love always,
Sheritta
I had a grandma that sounds an awful lot like yours. I have tried to be as much like her as possible. she has been gone for a lot of years but I still think about her a lot.
ReplyDeleteIt's nice to hear that someone else feel the same way I do. I think it's a good sort of pain to miss someone who made such a big impression on our lives.
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