Choose Wisely The Words You Want Left Behind

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That middle daughter of mine…

Is not into social media…doesn’t post…doesn’t scroll…doesn’t follow trends…but when she does…it’s often…for something clever…with her…it’s the unexpected…the caught by surprise…the I didn’t see that coming…that makes it extra delightful…

And so it was…earlier in the week before the arrival of those sisters of hers…DC Gal…looking through the goodies in her baby box…found her middle school…fuzzy…rainbow…diary…scrolled through the entries…and there…hidden in the pages…was an old fashioned kind of post…written by her then 12 year old sister…when DC Gal was in high school…and rainbow fuzzy diary…had long been forgotten…

A note…saying hello…a note…secretly hiding for all these many years…a note…written there…to someday…somewhere…make…someone smile…and that someday…was now…that somewhere…was here…and more than smile…we did…

Twelve year old Smidge…had no idea…the impact those words would have down the road…just like we never know…the impact our words can have…today…tomorrow…13 years from now…

Choose wisely…those words you want left behind…the messages you want received…those actions…you want…remembered…and do your best…to make someone…some day…somewhere…smile…
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And those daughters of mine…agree…