Forever friends

Your life can change in the blink of an eye and nothing can be done to stop what's coming next... 

We were young and restless and  loved life, our life. It was a late summer and like most of the summers we were trying to have a good time. But that night, after watching the mesmerizing sunset and bathing in the moonlight we knew that those moments won’t last forever, that the clock was ticking. Our souls knew we were running out of time, but  couldn’t admit it out loud. Not now. Not so soon. 

Martha and I were best friends since second grade. We connected instantly and were inseparables since then. We knew everything about each other and we shared all our deepest secrets. We hoped to stay friends forever, or- as we were usually joking-  at least until we were both diagnosed with Alzheimer.

But everything changed that year, when we barely turned 18. It was early spring and Martha got really sick. At first we thought it was a nasty cold, but her condition got worse. She spent the spring from one hospital to another, doing more and more tests. Nobody could figure out why she was so sick. Then her immune system couldn’t take it anymore and turned against her. It was the beginning of her eighteenth summer and no one was prepared for that.

We refused to surrender and decided to live. Live her last moments of life to the full blast. Make the best memories that would leave a mark in time and space. We decided to take Martha’s disease as a blessing for teaching us that every moment is important, that every breath counts.

And that is the reason why that night we jumped into the car and went as far as it would take us, hoping to see a new place and experience new things maybe for the last time together. We forgot all the bad things and that turned out to be one of the best nights ever, laughing and dancing under the stars, embracing the dark. Time froze for us, then and there. I made a promise to her to always live for the moment and don’t ever think about what’s coming next. Because life is not worth it if you spend it worrying. Just live, that’s what we did from that moment on, but things changed quickly and soon everything turned out to be a nice dream, a beautiful memory, a once upon a time.

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