MC_Hahn's
Walking the driveway
- Joined
- 3/20/20
- Messages
- 265
- Real Name
- Marie C.
I'm so sorry for you, but if you ask Chirp if you should be sad, I'm sure, judging by what I've read so far about him, that your little trooper would tell you to not cry, because he is happy. I hope that when he passes into his new life that it will be a swift and painless transition and that he will meet all of the other brave birds, animals, and people who have battled illnesses and that they will welcome him with open arms (and wings).
What Illness Cannot Do:
Illness is so limited...
It cannot cripple love
It cannot shatter hope
It cannot corrode faith
It cannot destroy peace
It cannot kill friendship
It cannot suppress memories
It cannot silence courage
It cannot invade the soul
It cannot steal eternal life
It cannot conquer the spirit
Illness is not a death sentence, but rather it is a life sentence; it pushes one to live. And Chirp sure did live a life to remember, one that touched everyone. He did not simply pull our heartstrings, he showed us that no act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
Do not think it is your fault. It only would have been your fault had you not chosen him from the start to be your friend, and had he not chosen you to be his guardian.
To say that you have loved him all of your life would be a lie, unless you consider that your life did not truly begin until you met him.
The real heroes are not the one who wear capes, but are instead the ones who wake up knowing that their days with another are limited, but still get up despite that, and who rise to the morning sun to face another day.
Theodore Roosevelt once said, "Courage is not having the strength to go on; It is going on when you don't have the strength."
You are a living testament to the strength of love and the spirits within us. Chirp is, and forever will be, a role model for us all, to not count the days, but to make the days count. You and Chirp taught us all what it means to be human.
