What are the most important words in the world ’I do’ on a wedding day or a heartfelt declaration at the end of a telephone call? Some people might think that it is a baby’s first word ’dada’ or ’mama’ or the words from the boss that tell you that the job is yours?
Well a sad story that I read today made me think what are truly the most important words: the three simple words ’I love you’.
A brave woman called Lynda Hankey was confronted by car jackers attemting to steal her car: a yellow MG sports car that was her pride and joy. Lynda wasn’t prepared to let some low-life take something that she had worked so hard for but unfortunately it is on snap decisions like this that lives can change.
Lynda stepped in front of her car, but the thief showed no regard for anything except his own gratification and stepped hard on the accelerator throwing across the bonnet and high into the air before she crashed into the snow. What the thief didn’t think about, if he ever thinks about anything at all, is that he wasn’t only shattering Lynda’s life but that of her family, who were near her as she slipped away at the hospital later, as well.
Nathan Hankey, her eldest son, paid a moving tribute to Lynda on his Facebook page: "Rest in peace Mother, you were my world and you always will be. I’m glad I was with you and that the last words we said to each other were ’I love you’. Nathan has a lot of sadness that will stay with him forever, a dull ache that will always be there in the background when this initial suffocating pain has subsided, but at least he will feel comfort when he remembers these words.
We never know what life has around the corner for us and for our loved ones. Life can change in an instant and as the devastating events in Haiti have shown us, life can be lost in a moment. Please think about this as I have been, and call or visit the people that are close to you, especially if you have recently had an argument or there is a stupid resentment that has been simmering for too long. Just tell them ’I love you’, those three little words have always been the most importnat words in the world!
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I was talking to someone today who is in his eighties. The life he had as a young man was dramatically different to anything that I have ever known.
As a child, at this time of the year, he said that it was perfectly normal to wake up and see frost on the inside of your bedroom window. There was no such thing as double glazing back then and if you were cold at night you would put coats on top of the bedclothes.
Even when he had grown up and got married it remained much the same. In those days you would sit in front of the open fire and go to bed when it had gone out. The first house that he lived in had a toilet in the back garden. You dreaded having to go out and use it in the winter.
He was married for two years before he and his wife could afford to buy their very first wall to wall carpet! And a television didn’t come along until they had been together for another three years.
It all made me think about how things have changed so much. You would automatically say how everything is so much better these days; but is it?
In modern times we all expect so much. When we get married (if we bother to), we seem to think that our home should come complete with all mod cons. If our microwave breaks down it seems like the end of the world to us. And if the TV goes on the blink then many of us go into a blind panic.
Perhaps there is a lot to be said for days gone by. People had to save for a very long time before they could afford to buy luxuries and, when they finally got them, things were far more appreciated.
I don’t believe that we need to go back to living in misery but maybe we are all a little bit too pampered.
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