C'est La Vie

There will be a time in your life where you look at a photo of yourself and say "this was before", before IT.  Before everything changed.  It will come.

You can look at yourself in a photo and see, your smile is different, it's a little wider, a little more true; your eyes are brighter, they have a sparkle.  It may not appear to be a physical difference to the untrained eye but you know, you may not know what year it is or where the photo was taken but you know - this was before.  This was when you were blissfully, ignorantly happy and you will never be like that again.  Before cancer, before death, before a heartbreak, before you lost the love of your life, before... before.  

I can see it, in myself, in others, in other people's pictures, in other people's smiles and eyes and it breaks my heart. 

How do you help someone else?  How do you be there for someone?