Four years ago I was a judgmental whinny girl who gets irritated from the slightest possible hurtful words that can get to my oversensitive ego. I hated people based on my untoward experience of that person.
Jan was one of those people I hated. As the saying goes, what you resist persist. I always got assigned to the same room where she worked. And when we are not working at the same room, whenever I went to lunch she was always at the break room. It took a lot of courage, empathy and a lot of lunch breaks together before I saw through her eyes how life should be.
The last time I saw Jan was in July, 2007.
She gave me a gift that I won’t easily forget.
And that was the gift of friendship.
I was not able to say goodbye…
Jan, wherever you are. Thank you so much.
You will always be remembered forever.
