Today, when I told my dad that I hated him before I left for school, I didn’t think there was a possibility that I wouldn’t be able to take it back. But now as I stare at him lying here, hooked up to feeding tubes and a breathing machine, I’m dying inside too. MMT

Today, 20 years after her first husband’s passing, and 8 years after her second husband’s passing, her boyfriend asked her to marry him. She said, “yes.” Later this evening she called me crying. She said, “I'm so afraid.” “Why?” I asked. “Because I'm so profoundly happy,” she replied. “And happiness like this is frightening because it seems like life only lets me be this happy when it’s preparing to take something from me again.” MMT

Today, I am a 5th grade English teacher with 10 years of tenure. My husband makes 90% of my annual salary from his unemployment benefits. MMT

Today, when the results came back positive, I realized I was pregnant with my attacker’s baby. MMT

Today, as my train pulled into the station 36 hours after we broke up and went in separate directions to pursue our careers, she sent me a text that read: “Time is passing over here moment by moment like a hand waving from a train I desperately wanted to be on. I hope you never have to think about anything as much as I have been thinking about you and our decision since you departed.” MMT

Today, I sold him life insurance at 9AM. When I called him this evening to return a phone message he had left for me, I found out that he passed away on his drive home from work at 5PM. MMT

Today, as my mom cried in her bed after her first round of chemo, she looked at me and said, “I’m not crying because I’m sad about the life I’ve lived, but because the world is so beautiful and life is so short.” MMT

Today, one of my first grade students came up to the front of the class during ‘show and tell’ with her dad’s army dog tags and a camouflage shirt. I had met her dad at the beginning of the school year before he was deployed overseas. I just assumed she was showing off his gear. But when another student asked what her dad did for the Army, she said, “I’m not sure. I would ask him, but heaven is just too far away.” MMT

Today, I'm lonely. And I'm lonely in some horribly deep way and for a flash of an instant, I can see just how lonely, and how deep this feeling runs. And it scares me to be this lonely because it seems catastrophic. And yet, I live in one of the most populous cities in the world with my husband, kids, and dogs. MMT

Today, my mom never made it home from work. And I forgot to kiss her goodbye this morning like I usually do. It doesn’t seem real. RIP. MMT

Today, my mom finally gave me permission to clear out my brother’s room, five years after his passing. MMT

Today, I watched and listened as his best friend approached his casket at his wake and through heavy tears cried out, “I never said 'I love you' because I was waiting for you to say it first.” MMT

Today, when he kissed me for the first time as we waited at that red light, I didn't know it would be our last, or I would have kissed him longer. Neither of us saw the car coming through the red light after our light turned green, but that's how our first became our last. It makes me ill. This hospital bed is uncomfortable. Life's meaning for all of this MMT.

Today, after holding in the tears of my breast cancer diagnosis for over a week without telling a soul, I finally broke into tears this afternoon when I found out my best friend has cancer too. MMT

Today, my 17 year old daughter slit her wrists and nearly bled to death on our kitchen floor – I came home early by sheer luck, applied pressure to her wounds and called 911 in the nick of time. This morning the two of us got into a huge fight I told her that I doubted she would ever be as successful, academically, as her older brother... I forgot to mention that this was OK. The doctors just told me she would be fine, but the effect of my careless words MMT.

Today, I know I am a horrible father when I sometimes catch myself holding him and crying and wishing he had died during birth instead of my wife, the love of my life. MMT

Today, four days after the crash, I woke up from a coma with seven broken bones and no dad. MMT

Today, as I mourn the loss of my son who gave his life for our country last week, I read about your son, a member of the same unit, and I am glad he was able to save a few lives and survive without a scratch. MMT

Today, is the tenth anniversary of the night you took your own life. Mom still hates you for the way you treated her as a wife. Kyler still hates you for how you treated him as a son. I hate you because I still love you, Daddy. MMT

Today, as he squeezed my hand in his final moments of life, my dad stared into my teary eyes and said, “Please think of me. Please remember, death ends my life, not our relationship.” MMT