Today, I’m the friend with a strong smile who everyone comes to when they need some reassurance and a shoulder to cry on. But I’m still waiting for one of them to look beyond my forced smile and ask me, “How are you doing?” MMT

Today, my father had a heart attack just after my mom took her last breath at the hospital. Now I’m here hoping he’ll make a full recovery. MMT

Today, I miss him. I miss him like I do every other day. I look at pictures and replay memories in my mind. I never thought I'd have to miss him and everything we had like this. It never crossed my mind. The fact that I never told him how much I loved him when I had the chance MMT.

Today, as my younger brother sat with my mom in her hospice bed (she is dying from breast cancer) my mom noticed that my brother was rubbing his cheek every time she kissed his cheek. She asked him, “Why are you wiping off my kisses?” He said, “I’m not! I’m rubbing them in so I can keep them with me after you go to heaven.” MMT

Today, on vacation in Florida, a bum approached me while I stood outside my hotel room door. I was honestly scared of what he might do, so I went inside and shut the door in his face. A while later, there was ambulance outside. He had knocked on the next to mine for help; it turned out he was suffering from seizures and needed someone to call 911. MMT

Today, on the back page of my son's school notebook, I found a note that said, "I wish they would stop calling me a gay, teacher's pet. I wish they would stop making fun of me every day." My son is in 4th grade and has never mentioned a thing to me. MMT

Today, when I told my classmate that I hate my dad, she looked down with a blank stare and said, “I wish I could meet mine.” MMT

Today, the kid that’s been bullying me since the school year started finally resorted to physical violence when I called him “a coward who’s all talk” this afternoon. He pushed me against a wall and hit me three times, giving me a black eye and a bloody nose. This evening, according to the 6PM news, he took his own life by hanging himself in his parent’s garage. MMT

Today, the final text she sent me before the accident was an MMT that ended with the words “…waking up without her.” And tomorrow morning, that’s exactly what I’ll be doing. MMT

Today, at the age of 28, I have two children, a $500,000 life insurance policy payout, and no husband. MMT

Today, 20 years after I was released from a 2-year prison sentence after killing her daughter - my best friend - in a DUI car accident her mom randomly knocked on my front door and said, "I forgive you for taking my baby from me." MMT

Today, I was notified that one of my students will be going through therapy for anxiety, mostly over her weight. She is in Kindergarten and only five years old. She is smart, caring, a math whiz, and has many friends at school. But, all this poor little girl sees is that she doesn't look like Barbie. When did the world get like this? MMT

Today, I had a long talk with my 15 year old, paraplegic brother. He told me he was going to break up with his girlfriend of two years because he would never be able to provide her with the one thing she wanted most, children. MMT

Today, my 8-year-old daughter curiously asked me, “Why does great-grandpa have a weird number tattooed on his arm in all the old pictures you have of him?” MMT

Today, even after years of physical and emotional abuse, when my phone rings, I still hope it's my dad. MMT

Today, I visit my mom in the hospital every morning and evening. She was recently giving 60 days to live. When she was healthy I saw her once every two weeks at the most. MMT

Today, my ultra-religious father took his own life less than 24 hours after he kicked me out of the house for coming out of the closet. MMT

Today, she has been in heaven for exactly 10 years, but I still find her long blonde hairs in the crevices of our house when I cleanup on Sunday mornings. MMT

Today, my husband has lung cancer, but I am the only one who used to smoke cigarettes. I quit 10 years ago, but not soon enough. MMT

Today, when 500+ friends and classmates showed up at my younger cousin’s funeral, I wondered where they were last week when he wrote that letter that said, “I have nothing and no one left to live for.” MMT