Grieving Lost Dreams 🌹

Come come sit with me, grab yourself a drink and pull up a chair. Have you ever had one of those weeks… or maybe even months… where you feel like you’re grieving, but you’re not fully sure what you’re grieving about? I realized my grief was about lost dreams. You know… we all carry these pictures in our heads of how we think life is going to look. The things we thought we would have by now. The people we thought would still be beside us. The moments we were sure would happen one day. But then time passes… and some of those dreams never get fulfilled the way we imagined they would. Some of those dreams have truly passed on… and honestly, that hurts. The strange thing is, you think you’ve let them go. You think you’ve made peace with them. But then out of nowhere, they pop back up unexpectedly… and you realize the ache is still there. I think sometimes we grieve the life we thought we would have by a certain age. Maybe we pictured marriage, children, more security, a di...
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Do the People in Our Lives Feel Our Love?

Come, come sit with me… grab yourself a drink and pull up a chair.

Alright… let’s talk.

And I mean really talk — the kind where you don’t just hear me… you feel me.

A friend said something to me the other day that hasn’t left my mind since.

She said that whenever she says goodbye to friends or family, she sometimes wonders:

What if this is the last time I see them?

And then the next thought comes…

Do they know how much I loved them?

Here’s the thing… we always think we have more time.

More time to call.
More time to visit.
More time to say the things sitting in our hearts.

But do the people we love actually know how much they mean to us?

Really think about that for a minute.

I knew my dad loved me.
He just wasn’t the kind of man who said it all the time.

That was his generation. He showed love differently.

But after he passed away, I had so many of his friends come up to me and tell me how proud he was of me and the boys… and how much he loved us.

And I remember thinking…

I wish he knew I needed to hear that too.

But then again… there are so many ways to show love.

Saying the words matters. Of course it does.

But actions matter too.

Love can show up in the smallest things:

checking if someone got home safe,
making dinner,
sitting beside someone when life gets heavy,
remembering how they take their coffee or tea,
showing up when they need you.

Sometimes the words are quiet… but the connection is still there.

And maybe that’s what we need to remember.

Not everyone loves loudly.
But that doesn’t mean they love lightly.

The older I get, the more I realize love is rarely found in grand gestures.

Most of the time, it’s found in the ordinary moments we almost overlook.

The person who checks if you ate.
The friend who sends the “Did you get home safe?” text.
The parent who worked long hours to provide.
The sibling who shows up when things fall apart.
The person who sits beside you in silence when words don’t help.

Sometimes love isn’t loud at all.

Sometimes it’s steady.
Consistent.
Quiet.

And maybe that’s why this conversation stayed with me so deeply.

Because at the end of the day, I think most of us are just hoping that if something ever happened to us… the people we love would truly know how much we loved them. 🌹

If this post spoke to you, I’d love to hear from you.

You can reach me anytime at loveandlifewithlisa@gmail.com.

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