Say What You Need To Say...

Life is not fair at all. I found out last night that a well liked teacher I had in high school passed away Tuesday night and another teacher I had in middle school is very ill with ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease). Grim news and not the way I pictured my week to turn out. I logged onto face book last night and saw an invite to a group honoring our teacher who passed so I left my condolences to his family and his wife who also taught at the school.

It was completely unexpected considering he was healthy, in shape; early 50’s he was going in for minor back surgery things went wrong and he did not make it out. It just really makes you realize that you do need to live every day to the fullest since you never know when your time is up.
As I scrolled through the comments left by others who had him as a teacher, I found myself tearing up at all the wonderful things everyone had to say. His wife left a lovely response to everyone for all of their sentiment and feelings toward him. She will be letting us know when the wake is so anyone who wants to can attend and pay their respects.

After reading through comments of former students and current students saying things like “you were the best teacher and my inspiration”, “you changed my life and made me realize my potential” it made me wonder why do people wait until it’s too late to say how they feel? I think we need to embrace “say what you need to say” and let everyone know how you feel, I am sure people did not randomly come up to him and tell him what an inspiration they thought he was and so on.

This made me want to call/write every person I care about and consider a hero, inspiration or what have you and tell him or her. It would make their day and I am sure it is so nice to see all these people have such wonderful things to say about you. For the rest of tonight I will be writing emails and telling everyone how I feel, and I want to track down those teachers I had in school who helped me become who I am today and let them know it. May he rest in peace and god bless the family.