Precious words

What if it was possible that your thoughts and words could be cut off at any instant? (Which of course they always could be.)

Those words would become much more important!

Today I was able to experience a tiny experiment into this sort of thinking.  A friend was on an airplane that was going to take off soon.  We knew we would be cut off from texting at any moment.

It actually continued for quite a long time so we were able to say a great many things, but always, behind each sentence was the knowledge that it could be the last -- for several hours, but still . . .

It made me think how precious the people in my life are and how important what I say to them is to me.