Aimee's Entry

In life, people come and people go but every once in a while someone slips in and for no apparent reason, they touch your heart. Evan touched mine. His surgery was yesterday and though I remained positive, I couldn't completely stop the "what-if's" from creeping into my thoughts. What if something went wrong? What if there were complications? What if... What if... What if... When I care for someone, it goes deep and the not knowing whether he was okay or not was like a fist around my heart. There was an e-mail from his wife in my inbox this morning and the fear and relief that ran through me were like a double edged sword but I opened it and that fist around my heart loosened. He made it through.

"People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within."

-Elisabeth Kübler-Ross