Dear Family...

I’m not sure if you knew this was coming or if you were hoping for a different outcome but this is it. I’d say that I’ve never been much for words, which would’ve been true until my adulthood. Until I realized that I do very much enjoy talking and connecting with people. No matter how many rehearsals I have in my head, or the deep breaths I take before diving into a conversation with someone. No matter how awkward I’ve felt in the midst of conversation, I seem to still have you around to keep my dictionary of a brain engaged. As I ramble on, I want you to remember me the way that you’ve always remembered me. The best possible versions of me... The vibrant, sporadic sometimes erratic, thoughtful, directionally challenged, smile-laden, heartfelt individual that you’ve known for however long. I write this to bring you in to some of the last moments we will have together and I hope to continue to make them meaningful. I feel like to know that my time is coming, and when those eyes close... I will have the memory of you to stick with me everyday. I’m not sure if I will have an actual memory, but my heart will always have you within those walls. As I write this letter, I remember all the times that I was lost and questioning my every move and I thank each of you for guiding me in a way that let me know I was never actually lost. I thank each and everyone of you that helped me through my moments of tears, my moments of heartache, helped congratulate my moments of triumph and achievement. I thank each and every one of you with loving both my sense of humor and my cold shoulder knowing that our friendship could withstand each obstacle. Though these are my final moments... I hope that it will not be the finality of me and my legacy. I hope that I continue to live through each one of you in a way that the story of me will be told time-and-time again. I hope that you find strength in knowing that I’ve been strong because of you all. I want to invite you to this final farewell not as a pity party, but as a moment to share with me memories that will last an eternity not only in your brains, but in this universe. I hope you will join me in this celebration of living my best life, while you are also living yours. And together, we will have our final words.

Love You