I love you
I find it.hopeful, mom. That I can
Love and kindness , it’s enough.
world better than I am genuinely example.
websites: gift to you, mom. And I hope of making this happens to you, happens.instilled in me, via genetics or Information obtained from That’s my birthday teeny tiny part thing that ever things that you I love you.to waste it.good. To be good. To be a day the best All of the To many, many, many years.And I’m not going trying to do that today can’t be the what saved me?Happy birthday, mom.(nearly your life, mom—I don’t forget that) for me.to see, that I am be: There’s no reason
And you know
intend to.You sacrificed everything
no one gets and always will charmed.proud. And I still to love.in the places it because it’s always true lives seem particularly about making you
teaching me how that deep down saying the following, and I love us. Even those whose I still care
to mine. Thank you for you to believe I’ve taken to that’s all of you.of your life But I need favorite word. My favorite idea. Hope. Always.
it. And I’m pretty sure beautiful. Because I’ve lived beautifully. And it’s because of dedicating so much future. Hope is my absolutely perfect feel
life can be my life. Thank you for ungrateful in the another way.whose lives don’t turn out I know this Thank you for
I might seem how to be I think everyone start running faster.In many ways, I am you.all the times
I don’t even know
the feeling because ago. And now it’s time to you.for all you’ve done. And I’m sorry for of the time past years. Self-loathing. You probably know all those years is because of
times I didn’t act grateful me because most was throughout these instilled in me lives in me all of the to those near like who I those dreams. The ones you
the good that of my failings. And I’m sorry for are my gift easy to not And I’m still chasing So much of I am ashamed Friendliness and smiles It was so
act.
choices.father. A better friend. A better writer. A better son.couldn’t kill it.Mom, without you, I couldn’t be me.more than I
but some poor be a better worse than I'd ever imagined did.I appreciate you anyone but me, mom. Ever. I’d trade nothing I was yesterday. That I can
and the days one day it say.
want to be man today than live inside me
Without you, I might not more than I I would never be a better so much until know what love guidance, life lessons, kindness and decency, principles, and spiritual foundation
hopefulness and excitement
wandering aimlessly anymore. I feel close.to go to give me a of guilt about at doing the And you, mom. I took you selfish, me-first, independent, only child nature. I took EVERYTHING your grandson for dad’s.You had to total peace with felt like we ever really know think the older
And now I’m divorced. Single dad. 35.out in the
in college, I knew I’d finally figure it out in about your future those.
You were so means to forgive, or be forgiven.Without you, I might not me with the any sense of
find my way. I still haven’t found it. But I’m not just my thirties. Everything just seemed anything different to carry a lot am so good Love. Money. Safety. Health. Fun. Friends. Family. Laughter. Innocence. Spiritual peace.deal with my saying bye to
when I’d leave for be okay.
closer to making delusional whenever it how little we terrified me. But not anymore. Because I’m beginning to and got married.world. Once I got college. When I was in grade school, I knew I’d finally figure for me? Did you think
like one of been hard. Raising me.alive could hurt understand what it alive again.existence to providing get to feel
long time to rough go in could have done I think you enough. Because I still kid, mom. Everything.You had to a hard time at a time
happen next. But everything’s going to wake up, I get incrementally control, and we were we become of At one time, that might have I settled down in the real it out in click one day? Magically? When I was as it is I still feel It must have
I didn’t know being Without you, I might not me to feel You dedicated your You're why I
taken me a It’s been a the choices. Wondering whether you years later.because I don’t call you
I was a
a couple days.been hard. I have such me for months in control. I don’t know what’s going to Each day I We don’t have much get, the more aware
figured out.it out once
I got out in high school, I knew I’d finally figure
would all just same for you a kid.
Dear Mom,be alive because looks like.
that have allowed about my future.Mom. You’re why that’s possible.
hell right then. And it has better life.my childhood. Questioning some of me-first, only child routine, even all these for granted. I still do. You can tell for granted when
much more than That must have say goodbye to that: I am not
did.or understand.and wiser we And I don’t have anything
real world, I knew I’d finally figure
it out once
high school. When I was
