I have to say this because I believe this is true.
We take moments for granted. We assume that this is life and that life will be the same. We make plans and never consider the alterations of life or the weather. We go and we live and we assume; and the ideas of change are not considered. Safe to say, we think that our life will be as it is, until one day, life changes, and then nothing is ever the same again.

This brings me back to the ideas of my Mother, or as I affectionately referred to her as Mom, and back to the ideas of life as it was for her. Then again, this brings me back to the life that Mom assumed she would always have.

I chose to end my last journal by asking the question, “What now?”
I asked this because of the countless times when I found myself in the wake of an aftermath or in the wake of a tragedy or some life-altering change, and yes, I asked myself, “what now?” because out of nowhere, life was about to be different.