Hi! It’s me! Lily!
I’m kind of a weird combination of happy and sad today.
Yesterday was sooo good. There wasn’t one thing that I could point to as wonderful, but it was a bunch of little wonderful things that all came together to make it a great day! I love my family! All of them! Even the ones that don’t think I’m their family! They’re all the best!
But then I heard on the news about a boy who did some very bad things up in Michigan. I don’t pay a lot of attention to the news because it makes me sad, but he was about my age. What makes a boy do things like that? I heard that his parents failed him, the school failed him, everyone failed him. Some people are like that. Some parents don’t care and are selfish, some school teachers and principals don’t care either, and a boy slips through the cracks, and, well, people die.
I said yesterday that I’m lucky, and I’m soooo lucky. I have so many people that are on my side. Even when Sabby and I are fighting, Dave will step in and try to make it all better. And when I have things inside me that I can’t get out, someone steps in and hugs me or makes me talk about it and i can get it out. But what about those people, like that boy, who don’t have that? Who hugs them and tells them it will be better? Who gives them a shoulder to cry it out on? No one, I guess. And that breaks my heart.
Sabby tells me that the world is broken, and I believe her. But we can’t fix the world. You or I or anyone else can’t fix the world, or solve all of the problems, and people who think they can just hurt themselves because they can’t. But we can make our little parts of the world better. We can hug each other and let each other cry and tell each other that we love them, and every time we do that, we take the brokenness and heal just a little bit of it. What would have happened in Michigan if that boy had had people like that in his life when he needed them?
So we sat in front of the tree, tonight, after school. We sat in front of the tree and looked at how pretty it was, and we played games, and popped popcorn, and ate chocolate, and if everyone did that, then maybe the world would be a little better place, dontcha think?
I’m a little peeved at Jack. Silly boy won’t give me a hint as to my present! I have to think of what to give him, too. What do you get a boy who stole your heart and won’t give it back? Maybe I’ll make him a heart cozy so he’ll have a place to keep it OMG that was the sappiest thing I’ve ever said in my life!
He promises, though, that I will absolutely love it. And I trust him. So let’s see what the silly billy did!
Oh. Emiko wants to come over Friday night, and bring her family too. I hope that turns out well!