It's all too short
Meghan's dad died last week. Fritz, oh that goofy drunk man with the quick laugh and bottomless heart is gone from this world. And today, his world mourned him in the only way we knew how. We drank to his life. We laughed about the good times, the funny quirks. And we shed some tears for the loneliness he endured behind that easy smile, and our hearts broke because we knew his was broken.
We are too young to be burying our parents. We are too young yet to grasp that our loved ones are not invincible, that they will not live forever, that Mom and Dad will not always be there to offer shelter and support and love. I fear the day that I come to know this world without my parents.