I don’t know if you noticed but at the end of everything I post I always write #SmileForNate but there’s a reason for that. Nate better known, as Nathan is a guy I met and he was one of those people that when you meet them they leave footprints on your heart. He was amazing in every sense on the word. He was smart, funny, good looking, great at sports, sweet, adventurous and the list goes on. I had tried to explain how amazing he was on sentences but really is too hard to do it. I have already erase sentences hundreds of time because it didn’t seem fair. He really lived life the way it was supposed to. How he was able to work, study, take care of his family, spend time with his friends, spend time with God, with all the groups he was, and still be his class Valedictorian I don’t know. All I know is that he was amazing, of all the years I saw him I can only recall one time when I saw him upset and still he was his funny, crazy, jokester, faithful, smart self. The thing is life is an irony waiting to happen and the most amazing person ever died the same week he graduated from college. The thing is we were more closed that people knew. He listened to me when I needed someone, he made me smile when I was sad and he helps me with the classes when I felt like I was drowning. A couple of days after his death his family made the hash tag #SmileForNate as a way to remember him and remind ourselves that he would have wanted us to smile for him. He is in heaven enjoying eternity with God!! Why be sad? We should rejoice! Also the # was used as a way to remember all the good times we had together but for me it has a meaning much deeper. I know is all about the afterlife, if you believe in one, but I also believe is about the moments. We should remember to live life to the fullest in the way it was meant to be lived, it reminds me that life is short and the after life is forever, it reminds me of how a difficulty may seem so big but is actually not. I sometimes feel like the problems are too big but then I see #SmileForNate written somewhere and I realized if I were to die tonight would I may such a big deal about this. This has so much meaning to me. Maybe Nathan didn’t get to live his life fully, still the short 17 years were well lived, and accomplish his dreams but I can. Is also about getting out of my comfort zone because after all life is not all about the working, school or even church but also about meeting people and helping people and just leaving some footprints on someone’s heart. We don’t have to be famous or be remembered by being the best but just being remember as a happy person, who lived life, work had towards her dream, care about the other and left footprint on someone’s heart. It might not be the meaning his family intended for it but is the meaning that stuck with me.
#SmileForNate
#SmileForNate