Don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you've got till its gone.

"..they paved paradise and put up a parking lot.."-Yellow Taxi, Joni Mitchell.
It does go like that. Really.
If there's one thing people are good at, its taking things for granted. Take a simple phone call for example. A phone call you receive everyday. We expect it. We know its coming. It always does. Without fail.
And one day it doesn't. And we find ourselves thinking, "what's going on?" . We go around trying to soothe this raw emptiness within us. We try everything we can think of.
But nothing works.
Then we realise, how we miss the sound of the voice on the other line. The deep, smooth soothing voice. We feel a longing for it with every fibre of our being. We lose all sense of reality. Time is meaningless. Life is nothing.
There is no longer focus. All there is is regret.
Regret for not appreciating what we had.
Of course, this is from my point of view. Everyone has theirs right?
Its interesting isn't it? What we love most is what we don't appreciate. But when its taken away, we find it difficult to accept. Perhaps familiarity is at fault. It clouds our minds with visions of an unchanging future. Visions that will keep us satiated with what we have and what we're doing.
So think of every normal thing in your life and discover how amazing each and every one really is. Change your perspective a little. Nothing is normal. Nothing ever will be.
You, dear, are definately amazing.

I will never forget that.