The manager once called me the 'best freak' in his stable, and, sad as it sounds, I took pride in that. When you are an outcast, even a tossed stone can be cherished.
Mitch AlbomYou say you should have died instead of me. But during my time on earth, people died instead of me, too. It happens every day. When lightning strikes a minute after you are gone, or an airplane crashes that you might have been on. When your colleague falls ill and you do not. We think such things are random. But there is a balance to it all. One withers, another grows. Birth and death are part of a whole.
Mitch AlbomWhen someone is in your heart, they're never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times.
Mitch AlbomBy now, the morning sun was just over the horizon and it came at me like a sidearm pitch between the houses of my old neighborhood. I shielded my eyes. This being early October, there were already piles of leaves pushed against the curbโmore leaves than I remembered from my autumns hereโandless open space in the sky. I think what you notice most when you havenโt been home in a while is how much the trees have grown around your memories.
Mitch Albom