GabyNever Forgetting the Importance of Love
I don’t know why, but I remembered a particular incident that I will never forget. I have a twin sister. When we were 17, she had to undergo emergency surgery due to a ruptured ovarian cyst. We are incredibly close; we love each other deeply and can sense each other even from a distance. I can’t imagine my life without her. I was on my way home with a terrible feeling of dread… When I arrived, the neighbors told me, “An ambulance took Ira away…” I hailed a taxi and begged the driver to hurry! I rushed to the hospital and caught up with her just before she went into the operating room—I barely had time to take her hand and tell her everything would be okay. The surgery was extremely complicated. I prayed to God to save her—I would have given anything! I couldn’t think of anything else. When she opened her eyes, tears were streaming down her face! The first thing she said to me was, “Lyuda, I love you so much!!! You know, I was so scared I wouldn’t get to say goodbye to you! I was terrified… I thought I was dying. Mom was there with me. And for some reason, I convinced myself that if she told me ‘I love you,’ everything would be alright, but if she didn’t, I would die… It was silly, but I drilled that into my head! And the last thing she said to me was, ‘Don’t worry, we paid for everything!’ I cried like a child… my blood pressure shot up to 140, and they kept telling me to calm down, saying everything would be fine, that everyone has surgeries and everything turns out okay… but I couldn’t explain to them why I was crying! I was convinced I would die simply because Mom didn’t say, ‘I love you’… And that meant everything to me!!! More than anything, I wanted to hear that…” She cried so bitterly that my heart felt like it was breaking.
Honestly, I will remember this for the rest of my life. It’s so important to say, “I love you!” We must understand one thing: life is so short! You might not get the chance to say “I love you,” to kiss someone goodbye, to look at them with love… there are so many things you might not have time for.
PEOPLE, tell your loved ones more often: “I love you!”
