Positive Mind. Positive Vibes. Positive Life.
By Teresa Foulks, Dolo’s Sister
My younger sister passed away almost 4 years ago. I was looking at a wall hanging from her room today that hangs prominently in our house.
It says:
“Positive mind. Positive vibes. Positive life.”
Honestly, it could have been something she bought because she liked it. A simple piece of decor hung on a bedroom wall without much thought behind it.
But now, years later, I can’t look at it without feeling the weight of it.
Because when someone is gone, the smallest things suddenly matter.
The phrases they repeated. The atmosphere they created. The things they surrounded themselves with. The way people felt around them.
You start realizing those things weren’t small at all.
And somehow this little wall hanging has become a piece of her to me.
A reminder that what we fill our spaces and our minds with eventually spills into other people too.
I don’t know if she intended for it to mean anything profound.
But it does now.
It makes me think differently about what I’m surrounding myself with … and what the people I love will someday remember about me.
Kind of wild how the simplest things can outlive us. I sure miss her.
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