day 13

i've never had a more crazy day in my life..
the beginning of the day was excellent, and it wasn't until these last few hours that things just turned around 180 degrees.
i've had the most lovely time just walking around town today. and playing some card games and talking and fooling around and playing basketball and on playgrounds. it was a day in which a lot of stress was relieved and there was no worry whatsoever.
went to dairy barn and finally visited m after a year of him telling me to visit him. but apparently it doesn't count cause i didn't go in.
and i had the most lovely dinner date with j. it was nice. we just sat and talked. he's always one of the best people i can sit down and talk to now.
and then my whole night flipped. let's just say i ran around town for an hour all on foot.
i don't remember if i wrote about this or not; but having the dinner date made me realize something. well i realized this before but this might be the first time i'm putting this into words.
i'll always remember a story my dad told me at the dinner table.
he told me that his grandpa (so my great grandpa) was almost killed during the japanese/chinese war. it was told that he was walking down the street and the japanese were chasing him. however, my great grandpa lo, you see, the lo's are a tall bunch. apparently he jumped in through a window and escaped. so you see, the moral of this story is, is if the lo tall gene wasn't there, i wouldn't be here typing this to you right now. then three generations of lo's wouldn't be here on this earth right now.
and that got me thinking.
about all the other lost souls that have been lost in the past. about family trees that have been cut off at the branches. who knows, if their lives were continued on, their little relatives could be here sitting next to us right now in life. or imagine if the people in our lives were not to be existed at all? and they were just cut off at the root.
what if the people in your life weren't there? and another group of people were?
enjoy the people you have in your life.
you never know when they might disappear.