I was watching a television program yesterday and saw a story about how this couple who had just started a life together were vacationing in Italy. They were so much in love and happy and were looking forward to starting a family together. They had just gotten married and the woman had saved up all year for this special trip to Italy. They walked the streets and took in the scenery all day and recorded their day on their camera's film to remember it by. They walked peacefully and blissfully by the ocean and the woman went over to stand on some rocks with the tranquil sea beside it. Her husband snapped shots of her while she stood there looking out at the sea. She was beautiful and they were so much passionately in love with one another. It was one of the best days of their lives and unknown to them at the time, their last. Nothing prepared them for what happened next.

In an instant a huge unexpected wave came crashing up onto the rocks and the woman was thrown off balance and tossed helplessly against the sharp jagged rocks. She was knocked unconscious immediately and pulled back into the sea with the retreating waves. Her husband watched in horror as he tried to do something to save her. There was nothing he could do as he watched in shock her head disappear underneath the ocean's powerful waters. In an instant their lives were changed drastically without warning.

The story impacted me. I was thinking about it and how fragile each moment is and yet we never even realize how precious life is and we take much of our time here on earth for granted. I got a second reminder of that yesterday morning. Lovie and I have friends that are another gay couple that we really adore. We had not seen them or talked to them in a while and I planned to call them yesterday to get together to do something fun soon. I got an email from one of them yesterday morning and I was surprised to read what she had to say. She told me her and her life partner had broken up and she was absolutely devastated. She wrote of her feelings and how she didn't know what she was going to do now. She wrote of how her heart was breaking that she lost her soul mate. She said she has been crying for over a month now and nothing she does or says will change the fact that they will no longer be together as a couple. She spoke of feeling desperately lost and untethered in the wind. She said she pours her soul and heart out to no avail and she doesn't know what to do or how she will manage to go on without this one great love of her life, her best friend and lover in her life. So much raw emotion, that she poured out, yet it won't change the facts. Lives will be changed.

It made me sad to realize that in an instant, things happen that can change our lives and it can have devastating effects on us. It made me think of how life is so precious and we should hold each tiny moment in our hands and embrace and appreciate how truly wonderful it is. We don't have control over things that happen in our lives always and in a moments notice something could happen that changes our life as we know it. I think of Lovie and how much she means to me and how she is truly the love of my life. So many times we take for granted and think, I will do that later, I've got time to decide, I've got plenty of time. But do we really? What is really important to you? Going about life fussing and grumbling because things aren't just the way we want them to be, or do you take the time to look around you and see the goodness and blessings you already have in your life? If you love somebody and they love you back, it is a wonderful miracle to feel that with another human being. I'm not even talking just about romantic type love, but of the love you feel for your children, your friends, your family and yes of course, your significant other.

It reminds me of a mother who has carried a baby for nine precious months, safe inside of her. Feeling it grow and develop into a living breathing human being full of life and vibrancy. You welcome this beautiful tiny miracle, full of life, who is an extension of you, and of your life source into this world. It doesn't matter if you've seen your baby's tiny little face one minute or the next 100 years, you still feel the connection of love and the strong bond with it. If something happens and in a moment that child is gone, it doesn't make the hurt and pain and loss less does it? There is no time limits to love. We open our hearts and it fills with emotion and it connects to the things and the people that truly matter to us. When it is ripped away from us unexpectantly, we mourn the loss and it hurts us deeply inside and impacts us to our core.

We never know when each moment will be our last. So why not make the most of every single moment we have and cherish each precious moment we have with the ones we love. It is a gift. Do you know that?

What is stopping you from enjoying each and every moment we have been given? Don't put it off because you just never know which moment will be your last. Here's wishing you many more moments to live fully and completely with love and joy.

I know that was serious and a bit heavy handed but it was what was on my mind this morning. Sometimes you just gotta say it out loud.

Want some fun now? How about some questions?

1. What is the last thing you took a picture of on your camera?

2. Do you think it is better to have one great love of your life, or to have several loves and experiences?

3. Do you believe in love at first sight?

4. Can you see yourself retired with the one you love? What does that look like?

5. What flavor lollipop is your favorite?

6. Does it offend you or make you uncomfortable seeing two people of the same sex hold hands in public?

7. What about kissing? If your answer is yes, do you feel the same way about seeing a man a woman kiss in public?

I'm not talking about swab your throat motel room kissing, I am talking just a general quick romantic kiss.

8. How often do you use your computer at work to surf the internet?

9. Name a website you visit often other than Blogstream connected.

10. Do you like onions?

11. Do you consider yourself creative? In what ways?

12. Favorite type of music you listen to most often?

13. Do you decorate for Halloween?

14. Is your hair short or long? Assuming you have hair! ;)

15. What is the most daring thing you have ever done?

OHH NOOO!! There are witches in my mailbox. What am I to do? I found them there this morning, doing things they shouldn't do!! How the witches got there, I haven't got a clue.   But they won't be there much longer because I'm sending them to YOU!!!!!!   You've been Witch Kissed! Before the warts begin to spread, pass the kisses on instead!

That's it peeps! Have a great weekend and love one another to make every moment really count.

Hugs!

PolarB ;)