I wrote a letter to my daughters last month. I was pleasantly surprised with Corinne’s response. When did my daughters turn into amazing women? I think I missed it thanks to my career, but now I have been given an opportunity to get to know my family, really get to know them. I will not miss it again. Yeah ALS!
Corinne’s response:
Dear Dad,
Here I am trying to study but thinking about you after those wonderful words of wisdom. I just wanted to say that despite my incredibly busy schedule and preoccupied mind, I never stop thinking about you. For some reason, I keep remembering the days when you would travel all the time and I would miss you so much and write to you or my diary saying how much I missed you…I wish I knew where those notes were! I’m sure I kept them.
Corinne’s response:
Dear Dad,
Here I am trying to study but thinking about you after those wonderful words of wisdom. I just wanted to say that despite my incredibly busy schedule and preoccupied mind, I never stop thinking about you. For some reason, I keep remembering the days when you would travel all the time and I would miss you so much and write to you or my diary saying how much I missed you…I wish I knew where those notes were! I’m sure I kept them.
Anyway, as usual I teared up after reading your words, mostly about the dance thing. My whole life I’ve taken things for granted, but I never thought I’d regret not dancing with you more. My mind goes back to the cruise before you were diagnosed with ALS, where Ashley and Jordan danced with you at the captain’s party but I was too embarrassed for some reason. I was always too embarrassed. Like why?
Advice to myself: Life is far too short to be concerned about what others think. Never ever let that get in the way of pursuing what you think will make you happy, as long as it will make your heart happy.
Advice to myself: Life is far too short to be concerned about what others think. Never ever let that get in the way of pursuing what you think will make you happy, as long as it will make your heart happy.
There are rough days when I try to recall our good memories but struggle to remember exactly how things were, like how your voice sounded. That makes me feel sad, but I will never forget your laugh! I have it in my head and it makes my heart happy.
I absolutely love that you did laughter yoga because I can just see you jumping around and being so energetic and spreading joy to everyone around you. I don’t know why I was embarrassed about this too.
I look back on times like these and think, who even cared but me? Who judged me, besides me?? And the fact that I’ve forgotten what seems like incredibly significant things in my life shows that even If other people did care, why in the world would they remember it now?
Love,
Corinne
I think we can all take Corinne’s advice to heart. Even though we are all incredibly busy, take time to make memories with the ones we love whether near or far. Time passes too quickly, don’t miss out!
I absolutely love that you did laughter yoga because I can just see you jumping around and being so energetic and spreading joy to everyone around you. I don’t know why I was embarrassed about this too.
I look back on times like these and think, who even cared but me? Who judged me, besides me?? And the fact that I’ve forgotten what seems like incredibly significant things in my life shows that even If other people did care, why in the world would they remember it now?
Love,
Corinne
I think we can all take Corinne’s advice to heart. Even though we are all incredibly busy, take time to make memories with the ones we love whether near or far. Time passes too quickly, don’t miss out!
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