ernads | Night post

I have spend some 3 hours reading the posts on the yearly ynet Memorial day project and crying. ( every year for some 12 years now they are inviting people to write and tell about his or her loved one. Every year, more and more people post, and it can really break your heart to read some of those posts. )

Marina wrote last year. I went and dug up her post, and there is something there I want to quote because it is so right;

" At first, out of my pain, I had asked myself: " Perhaps it would have been better, had she never been born. This way, we would have not lost her. We would have not now been crushed, we would have not been burned. We would have not been left with this emptiness, with this unending, unrelenting pain.

But No.

We were blessed. Be were privileged to know for 17 wonderful years, a unique and amazing human being, a constant source of happiness, interest, love and comfort.

I am willing to suffer the life-long pain of her loss, for the blessing of knowing her, and loving her for those short 17 years. "

This really says it all.