You have come a long way, and you’re still learning and growing. Be thankful for the lessons. Take them and make the best of things today.For my 18th birthday, many moons ago, my grandfather on my mom’s side gave me four lightly-used flannel shirts that he no longer needed.
The shirts were barely worn and in great shape; my grandfather said he thought they would look great on me. Unfortunately, I thought they were odd gifts at the time and I wasn’t thankful.
I looked at him skeptically, gave him a crooked half-smile, and moved on to the other gifts sitting in front of me. My grandfather died two days later from a sudden heart attack.
The flannel shirts were the last gifts he ever gave me, and that crooked half-smile was the last time I directly acknowledged him.