Letter to Liam
Today I just want to share one of the hundreds of letters my daughter wrote to Liam, her 5year old son with cancer.
So don't know who has watched the movie Collateral Beauty starring Will Smith.
I watched it a while back and I remember thinking to myself and hoping that myself or anyone I know has to never go through something like this.
I cried for hours. I could feel the pain Will Smith was portraying in the movie. I felt heartbroken.
Anyway. . .not long after, bam, we find ourselves in a similar situation.
SPOILER ALERT. . .
In the movie Will Smith lost his daughter to cancer. He was trying to cope and by doing so he was writing letters to Time, Love and Death. I won't post what he wrote but I though I would give it go.
So here are my letters. . .
To Time,
It is nice to meet you. I never fully understood you and it seems I took you for granted. I thought I would have you forever on my side.
They say you heal and make things better and maybe later even hard to remember. I have come across your talent of making people forget many times before.
But now I find that I constantly wish I had more of you. More of you to appreciate the small things which now feel like they were the big things. More of you to hold my son a little longer, to understand him a little better and be a little more patient.
I pray now everyday that you will just a move a little slower.
I hope you understand that I am truly sorry for not appreciating you. I should have used you like I was told to. . .wisely.
Sincerely,
Mel.
To Love,
You are the one thing I understood most of all. I have always loved deeply, passionately, intensly, emotionally and with all my heart.
Then I met Liam. My perspective of you changed completely. I found a new type of love. A love so strong, so deep and so respected.
I feel though you have kind of let me down. How can someone I love so much be put through such turmoil and pain? How can my love for life be tested so immensly?
But yet even though I am angry I still find you everywhere. You have showed time and time again you will never leave. Through every kind word or gesture, from either a friend or a stranger, I find you there.
You have proved to me yet again, life is nothing without you and for that I am forever grateful.
Mel. Xxx
To Death,
You are the hardest one to write too of all. Not because I fear you, not because I hate you but because you are always to damn unexpected.
I have seen you before and I have experienced the pain you deliver. Guess thats something time nor love can take away.
All I ask of you is to stay away. Let Liam live a healthy, happy and loved life. May he experience time and love to the fullest.
You can come, I cannot stop you, but just not yet, nor in the future, well lets make it never. I pray that I don't have to meet you ever again.
Regards,
Mel.
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