Unconditional.

So it's been fourty-nine days.

It still doesn't feel any different, as though you're still here by our side. 

In the fashion of the family, you have instilled a great sense of honour, adventure and most importantly - love - within us all. 

Love - which has hardly needed to be spoken, because we all know deep down how much you loved us. Love - which we all kept by our sides, so we knew you were always with us. Love - which has brought us to where we are today, and keeps driving us forth, from hence and forever more.

Similarly, Mum pours unconditional love into us so we know she'll always be by our sides. 

We can totter along in the great outdoors, down roads less travelled, stick our hands into frying pans, retreat in pain, nursing our wounds, but full of bravery to keep going. We are no delicate greenhouse plants, but tough little weeds that survive whatever conditions are thrown at them. We undauntingly explore, cautiously proceed, fearlessly learn and wholeheartedly love.

All the while with a concrete mind and overflowing heart, comforted by the fact that there's always a place to return, always someone there for us. 

Always will be, so even if our dear and loved ones aren't by our sides, we know deep down: They are there. Always. No matter how far we go, there's always a place to call home.

So we have the quiet confidence to keep going, thriving and blossoming.

有一個地方　有暖暖的愛

讓想哭的人兒能夠哭個痛快

可以撒嬌　可以依賴

在父母眼中　每個人都是小孩

 

就算全世界的窗　全關了起來

家這一扇門　依舊會永遠打開

就算全世界的雨　全下了起來

家這一把傘　隨時為我們敞開

What you leave behind is the people you loved. You leave yourself in them. The important people in our lives leave imprints. They may stay or go in the physical realm, but they're always there in your heart, because they helped form your heart. There's no need to say goodbye.