Today, during a lecture on texting and driving, the teacher asked us to check our phones to see if the last text we got was worth getting in an accident for. My last message was, "You look nice! Love u! Be safe! Love, Mom" MMT

Today, my maid of honor (and best friend) in my wedding party is the girl I randomly sat next to in the school cafeteria 8 years ago when we were freshmen in high school. I sat next to her simply because she was sitting all by herself and I didn’t have anyone to sit next to either. MMT

Today, she told me I saved her life last year when she was depressed. I looked at her, perplexed. “But all I did was hang out with you and talk about the things friends talk about,” I said. She smiled and said, “I know.” MMT

Today, a boy in my computer programming class sincerely asked me out on a date. I’ve been chubby and have felt unattractive most of my life. Our date isn’t even until tomorrow, but no matter how it turns out he already made me feel more beautiful than I ever have before. MMT

Today, coincidently, the woman I pulled out of the 28th story window of a burning apartment building while I was on duty as a firefighter last month is the doctor who helped my wife deliver our first child. MMT

Today, I turned 22. At my birthday party my mom told some of my friends that as I was being born I almost died in the birth canal. All of my friends started talking about how different their lives would be without me and how there are so many things they would never have had the guts to do if it hadn’t been for me. Their comments made me smile and MMT.

Today, my wife and I celebrated our 25th wedding anniversary. We met 26 years ago in a suicide therapy and rehabilitation center. We were both admitted patients. MMT

Today, my father called me from his room at the hospital. He’s been in a coma for almost two full years. MMT

Today, after being laid off last month, I’m struggling to find a new job and struggling with the possibility of having to move 3000 miles away to find one. I’m completely lost when it comes to reestablishing my footing in corporate America. But through it all my wife has been so supportive. And as lost as I feel in my professional life right now, I’ve never been happier in my personal life. MMT

Today, a school bus stopped in front of me at a crosswalk and a little kid was waving at me frantically. I laughed and waved back. There was a look of surprise and then extreme happiness on the kid's face that someone waved back to him. The way children appreciate the small things in life MMT.

Today, I was walking home from work in the pouring rain without an umbrella. I was walking just behind an elderly man who had an umbrella. As we both passed under the overhang to an apartment building, he stopped, turned around and handed me the umbrella. He said, “This is my stop and you look like you need an umbrella. Pass it along someday when the opportunity arises.” MMT

Today, I spoke to a man at the nursing facility where I work whose wife of 60 years is suffering from advanced Alzheimer's disease. He comes to sit with her every day just to hold her hand. "She's been my best friend since high school," he told me. "We made a promise to stick together." MMT

Today, in my San Francisco office, I received a FedEX package containing my Nikon camera that I lost in Key West last week. Accompanying the camera was a note that read, “Found your camera on the beach. Looked though the pics, recognized the hotel you were staying at, saw the pic you pointing at your room number, biked to the hotel but you had already checked out, got your name from the front desk (no phone # listed), Googled you, found you, biked to FedEX.” MMT

Today, exactly twenty years ago to the hour, I risked my life to save a woman who was drowning in the rapids of the Colorado River. And that’s how I met my wife - the love of my life. MMT

Today, for the first time since my spinal injury a year ago, I have feeling in my legs. MMT

Today, when I lifted my sleeve to cut, the sentence, “You are beautiful.” was written in blue ink on my arm over my scars. I fell asleep in the back of the auditorium during drama class at the end of the day. One of my classmates must have written it while I was asleep. It made me smile and I didn’t cut today. MMT

Today, as we (an interracial couple born in two different countries) reviewed our family trees, my husband looked at me and said, “Ya know, about the only thing we have in common here is that we love each other.” MMT

Today, my boyfriend was trying to pass me a note in homeroom class. Our teacher caught him and confiscated the note. She took the note back to her desk, read it, smiled, and then came back and gave it to me. The note read, “I love you. You look beautiful today.” My boyfriend’s kindness and my teacher’s compassion for love MMT.

Today, my mother passed away after a long battle with cancer. My best friend lives 2000 miles away and called to comfort me. While on the phone, he asked, "What would you do if I showed up at your house and gave you the biggest hug in the world?" "I would surely smile," I replied. And then he rang my doorbell. MMT

Today, we visited my grandma who has an irregular case of Alzheimer's. When she said she wasn’t married, my grandpa looked up in despair. We could all tell it killed him inside. But instead of getting angry, he stood up, walked over to her and asked her to marry him again. After a few moments of jogging her memory, she said, “Yes!” MMT