I lost a friend after a horrible 13 month battle with cancer in May. I miss her more than words can say. I miss her more than I would have thought. I keep wanting to pick up the phone and talk with her. I would call her on my lunch break and see how the treatments were going, how was she coping and most importantly to tell her that I loved her.
I had the honour and privilege of doing a shoot with her. She wanted to surprise her man with pictures for Christmas. It was a secret and our shoot date was a secret then the picking of the images she wanted to help me have her get printed were a secret then she did the big reveal at Christmas. How would I have known that a year after that shoot that cancer would have so rudely and harshly invaded her body? How would I have known that those pictures are the last ones of her healthy and happy and full of life? Yes we have some pictures after - taken at a surprise birthday party given for her and random ones here and there - mostly in the hospital - but those ones aren't the same.
My question is if you were given just one day.....one day back with someone you have lost due to death, a fight, a move, what have you what would you do? Losing her has taught me to take my camera, capture those memories because on a day that you miss her so much your heart feels like it is going to break, you can look at the pictures, grab the memories and smile. Tears are shed indeed but I have those memories. I will have those memories that help erase the way she was at the end....I can now remember more how she was and always will be....beautiful, vibrant and amazing.
I will forever love and miss you my friend. Until we meet again.
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