Before Tiffany asks me how old I am again, no, not mine… I’ve got 25 more years to go before hitting that mark. My parents just celebrated their 30th anniversary on Monday. Well, they actually celebrated on the 8th, because that’s when all of their kids worked together to plan and pay for a great day/night out.
During the day they headed up to Flint, MI (they live near Jackson, MI for those of you who are curious) to check out the auto museums there (my dad is an insane car nut… show him a tail light and he’ll correctly identify it as off a 1965 Corvette, tell you what engine choices you had, original color choices and what seperated it from the years before and after… it’s amazing to watch). Afterwords we had reservations for them at a nice upscale Italian restaurant where we had celebratory champagne and calimari waiting on the table. After dinner they headed back to their house which little sister Sarah Beth had decorated with roses, old cards and love letters from the two of them, and framed new letters from their kids. And while I got a break down of the whole day from them… what they liked about the musuem, what they ate at dinner, etc… The thing they kept telling me about was the old letters and cards, and the new letters that were waiting for them. Words on paper. Words that have been spoken time and time again, but are now immortalized in print…
There’s an old saying, “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.” Kind of funny that we start off our lives with such a blatent lie… I mean sure, some of us care more about what people say to us than others… but without words we can’t really express the depth and complexity of our thoughts and emotions. So they’re kind of one of the most important tools we have. Guess that’s why the Ministy of Truth’s rewriting of our speech in 1984 was so attrocious… Thought control on the most basic of levels, “If we do not give them the words to express themeselves, they cannot develop complex thoughts or emotions.”
I guess what I’m trying to say is, after realizing how important words are in this world, it really made me realize how important it is to let the people I love know just how much I care for them.
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