Day 9 - Someone You Wish You Could MeetDear Someone I wish I could meet
To write a letter to one person that I wish I could meet is an incredibly difficult task. I can think of so many people that I would love to meet, from various decades, centuries, millenniums, and even walks of life. But you are definitely on the top of my list. I've heard so many great stories about you, it makes me sad that I never had any of my own to create. I wish that I could've had you in my life, photographs are fantastic and stories are too, but they will never come close to the real person. It makes me sad when they talk about your final weeks and months, about how you wanted to make sure the Christmas tree was put up for the kids and how you wanted to take photos in your uniform one last time. I wish I could have become more absorbed in your culture, it runs in my veins, but it doesn't feel like it's a part of me. I wish your ethnicity was more engrained in me, I don't look like you or talk like you, and I wish I did.
I miss you, even though we've never met, I really do. I think it's kind of funny how you can miss something you never had. I know you had a good life, I know it was full of trials, but good. I know that you made a huge difference in those lives that you touched, I just wish that mine was one of those. But regardless, your legacy lives on, and everyone still remembers you. I love you, you never knew me, but I like to think you would've loved me too. I hope that you would be proud of me and that we would be close. I hope that we would have had a special bond. He carries a part of you in him everyday, so whenever I'm with him, I feel closer to you. I miss you, I really do.
Sincerely, Eleanor
Until next time fellow humans....
Like this, but not in a romantic sense
