I still remember the moment everything changed

 I still remember the moment everything changed.

It wasn’t loud.
There was no grand announcement, no warning that my heart was about to grow in a way I had never experienced before.

It was just… you.

So small. So new.
And somehow, already holding a place inside me that felt like it had always been yours.

I had loved before. Deeply. Fully.
I thought I understood what love was supposed to feel like.

But becoming your grandmother…
that was different.

It softened parts of me I didn’t even know had grown hard.
It brought back a tenderness I thought time had quietly taken away.

You didn’t just enter my life—
you changed how I see it.

The way I notice the little things again.
The way I hold moments a little longer.
The way my heart learned to open without fear of giving too much.

And even now…

I still struggle to put it into words.

Because some kinds of love aren’t meant to be explained.

They’re meant to be felt—
every single day.

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