The Nerd's Eye View

ALV: heehee- i love how you take time every so often to let the people in your world know what you think of them

The quote above came at the end of a brief chat session with a friend of mine. We had been talking back and forth, and I had thanked her for cheering me up. Then the conversation got silly for a bit as we discussed the vagaries of the Disney version of Winnie the Pooh, and I told her that she had reached the high water mark of silliness, which prompted the quote above.

At the time I sort of laughed it off, but at the same time it got me thinking: why shouldn't we tell the people around us what we think of them? In fact, as I went back in time trying to think of when I started to do it. As a kid, you take people for granted and their place in your life. Sometimes you change your mind when you get older, sometimes something happens to let you know what the dangers of taking people for granted are. In my case, I lost a very good friend in a senseless accident. When your last words to someone are something terribly inane, then you begin to wonder at what you have been saying - or rather, not saying.

So l started telling people what I thought. I started blurting them out, and not always at the right times, but then again who's to say if that time is not the last one? Over time, I have said some outlandish things to people, but I've never regretted it. After all, it could be the last time...