If you could pack for heaven, this was how you'd do it, touching everything, taking nothing. - Mitch Albom

It is not until much later, as the skin sags and the heart weakens, that children understand; their stories, and all their accomplishments, sit atop the stories of their mothers and fathers, stones upon stones, beneath the waters of their lives.

I know I cannot undo this. None of us can undo what we’ve done, or relive a life already recorded.

Feeling loss is part of why you are on Earth. Through it, you appreciate the brief gift of human existence, and you learn to cherish the world I created for you.