Expressing Love

I happen to read this story and was touch at the moment I read it. It reminds me on how important it is to tell to people, specially love ones, how they are treasured. At times we tend to neglect and think that they knew we love them. That we forget the fact that we need also to tell them how much they are cared every time.

Life is too short. Thus, we need to always affirm to them every time that we love them. We'll make them know what we feel and make them hear it out from us.

Here's the story:

" My father is not the expressive or hugging type of a guy. But I recall as a child, that he showed his love to me the only way he knew best-he walked me in the park and we simply talked.

A few months ago, Dad was trying to fix a light bulb in the garbage area. Standing on a chair for greater reach, he lost his balance and went crashing down. His head hit the concrete floor and he was brought to the hospital. Doctors needed to operate on his brain because of blood clots. The gravest blow while he was confined in the hospital was severe pneumonia so he was hooked up to a respirator. We were directly told that he could go anytime.

I looked at Dad's ashen face and whispered in his ear, "I Love you , Dad!"

That was when he regained consciousness for few minutes. He looked at me with so much sadness in his eyes, raised one hand, touched my cheek and tried to hug me. He seemed to be bidding farewell. For both of us it was like clinging to eternity.

My father get better after several months. And hug him more often now."

... This story is not just for the Fathers and sons but for all of us. That letting our love ones know how much they are valued is necessary to make life appreciated.

I remember one time when a wife shared to us her story about how important telling and hearing the words I love you's is. She said that her day is always as ordinary just like what we have. However, when her husband will tell her the magic words, she said, everything went to an extraordinary day. She narrated and reminded us on how we figure out what is a hands-on mother is, she said that she's just like that. Taking care of the house full of mess, house chores and responsibility to set the house in order. And if we visualize a mother, she said, she's not excuse because she too is like that, a woman who shouts at home, angry and wear a tired face even before the day ends. That's how her everyday routine is . But she said, when she heard those words, she elaborately told us that everything in the house, the works and other things, is nothing because she felt like floating. That fireworks brighten her surrounding. And she added that you won't be able to notice that you already finish all the work at home because of the smile that was on her lips.

That real story of the wife tells us that even if those three words, "I love you", only are the words spoken by people, life will surely be so wonderful. This could esteem an individual to view everything around him differently and not just that, everyone will have a happy disposition and that will make an awe-inspiring world to live with.

If that's a kind of people, positive thinkers and wears smiles on their lips, live in this world that we have, we could really imagine a peaceful world. Isn't it wonderful to live in that kind of world? What do you think?

Well, I know changing the world is so big. Maybe we are to start with a single step first and that is to start in our own backyard, in our own family. Until there will be such a time that the entire humanity will be able to follow the trend we'll set.

Love you my dearest! :)