Almost everyone will die at some point or another and for some reason, Americans have made it so hard to do without feeling like they are inconveniencing everyone else. But we know the truth, it will happen, and it is not always our own fault.
Here is a list of things you can do to make your friends realize it is not an imposition.
1. Cook supper once a week and eat it with them or in front of them. No use in sympathetic starvation.
2. Sit quietly for hours looking and thinking. Talk about what floats to the top.
3. Bring a new set of clothes that probably fit. Prop a mirror if necessary.
4. Share about the latest music. There might be a pop quiz.
5. Offer to help write thank you notes for the cheezy gifts other less enlightened friends have sent.
6. If they are given pain medication, ensure they get all they can. Who cares about addiction at the end?
7. Kiss them on the face, unless they are burn victims.
8. Ask if they want you to be funny or sad at their funeral. Most people have a much less reverent feeling about their own funeral than they do about someone else's. Talk about who all you think will come.
9. Tell them how much you love them.
10. Don't let them get away with being demanding, after all we are both still alive.
2 comments:
Allen, this is beautiful. You are an amazing man.
Some really good stuff there. Painful, too, if you've been there, but still good. Blessings to ya!
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