Anonymous
My best friend in high school called last week. We spoke about friends we lost. How some obituaries read like a curriculum vitae. I suppose this was how this person was valued during their life. I see this on Fb, too among the living. Photos of this person with a celebrity or another listing their credentials promoting themselves.
I remember attending a friend’s funeral years ago. Another highly accomplished person, but no one spoke to that. Instead, they mentioned the person’s kindness and compassion to others. Overcoming insurmountable obstacles in their life. Their love of Appalachian culture, riding horses, design, watercolors, friendship, hiking, great films. Kindness. A good friend. And, then quiet ensued. These final words said it all.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
There wasn’t a dry eye in the audience.
as someone who loved well and freely, who tried to make the world she lived in more friendly and caring, who used music to communicate and engage, and who was exhuberant about what she did.
As someone who cared.
LOVE this, Carroll! I concur, your response really resonates with me! Thank you for making it so simple!
I would love to be remembered as someone who overcame a traumatic childhood and devoted their life to helping others. I want to be remembered as someone who was a loyal friend and a loving wife and mother.