for-granted

You may discover your purpose, but if you take it for granted, you will abuse yourself.

Taking someone for granted is same as checking the strength of a boat by making holes in it.

Often, things are left unsaid. Everyone is guilty of thinking and feeling things... of loving or appreciating others... and of taking for granted that those others will just be there... to continue to share life's journey with...Then when one is gone... so quickly... all those things left unsaid... they matter more, because they were unspoken...Everyone fights their own battles inside themselves... often no one outside them even knows the wars that rage inside even those who they are closest to...I'd like to take the time, here and now, to tell all of you... those close to me, and those who aren't... those who matter so much... and those who have influenced me in even the smallest ways... all of you... that you matter. You are important. You are appreciated. Don't for a moment think otherwise. Don't, for even an instant, think or feel that you are not a wonder... a gift to the world... that makes it a better place to be... or that it would ever, in any way, be anything less than a tragedy for you to leave before your time.

Well,_ he sighed, squeezing my hand back. __ guess we were both running away in different ways.___hat do you mean?__ad shook his head. __our mother took a Mustang. I took a whiskey bottle._ He reached up and readjusted his glasses, an unconscious habit-he always did it when he was making a point. __ was so devastated by what your mother did to me that I forgot how horrible drinking is. I forgot to look on the bright side.___ad,_ I said, __ don__ think there is a bright side to divorce. It__ a pretty sucky thing all around.__e nodded. __aybe that__ true, but there are a lot of bright sides to my life. I have a job I like, a nice house in a good neighborhood, and a wonderful daughter.__ rolled my eyes. __h God,_ I muttered. __on__ go all Lifetime movie on me. Seriously._____ sorry,_ he said, smiling. __ut I mean it. A lot of people would kill for my life, but I didn__ even consider that. I took it-and you-for granted. I__ so, so sorry for that, Bumblebee.