Forever

Time passes and you never know where it goes. There one minute and gone the next. So much planned to do in those minutes of the day and yet they flow through your fingers like sand. I think the same is true for everyone. No matter who you are or what point in life you are at. On the streets time can drag but before you know it days have passed and then weeks and months and you wonder where they went and what you did. One day you are a kid safe in the nest and the next day, which seems like yesterday, you are grown and on your own. My day came at 16. I was grown and on my own or so said the state of Georgia. It is hard to imagine now when I look at my kids and other kids that any adult in there right mind could turn a kid of 16 out on there own. I don't even know when or how it happen. Almost like going from having a family to foster care the details are so foggy and almost unreal. When I look back now it is as if I am looking at another's life, not my own. How could that be my life. What happen where did it go. One day maybe I will learn from my mistakes and enjoy every minute as if my last. Learn to accept what is given to me as a gift and not a discomfort. I had a child look to me and say these things to me, at first I thought to myself if only she knew the real me. The same child again said these words about me and again I thought she was confused. Then I decided that this child saw something, in my heart, or maybe in my soul, that only a child could see. Forever a minute is gone, and replaced by a new. Take advantage, don't question, never doubt for it is true and real and can never be brought back. Never hurt one that reaches out to you with words of kindness, no matter what your mind might think, because in the heart, of the one that says them, lives a place for you. If you destroy or hurt it you have taken a piece of that ones heart, and for what? There can never be any good to come from that. Nothing but pain and sadness. Will they recover, of course but why should they have to, if it could have been avoided. If you, without thought hurt, make amends and let that piece you took grow back in time. Forever is a long time, never take a peace of forever.