dear andrei,i miss you. i think about you every day and i imagine your face in my mind and i hear your laugh in my ears. it has been 3 months since you left the hospital and i watched you run down the hallway and out of my life. i stood there in shock with tears silently streaming down my face and tried not to think about how long it would be until i see you again. since i have come back home to America i have found that life lost a lot of its meaning for me. i dropped school this semester because i couldn't sit in a classroom and pretend like research papers and textbooks were my top priority right now. i couldn't commit myself to group projects and to the other students.
i lay awake at night and cry for you and for all the children who filled my heart with so much joy this summer. the sun set on my life when you left, but i survived. the sun set again when i returned home. but i am surviving. do you remember when the nurses used to make you cry because they made you sit on your potty or refused to give you food? remember how you wiped your tears and your snotty nose with a tissue and then regained composure and laughed and played with the fetele? i know how that feels now. i am wiping my eyes and my snotty nose and finding a reason to laugh and be happy again. i love you andrei. i miss you every day.
i hope you are playing and laughing right now.
Alyssa I love you so much, everything you said was so beautiful and so true. Andrei was truly blessed to have you in his life even if it was for a short time. I know that one day he will run to you with open arms and thank you for how much you loved him. You were an amazing example of a disciple of Christ to me all summer, so thank you for all that you have given me. I love you!
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