What can be accomplished in five years?

One can be born and attend kindergarten in the span of 5 years.

A college degree can be attained.

A couple can start dating, get engaged, and get married.

Michelle Duggar can give birth to three children.

“The next big thing” sees many reincarnations.

Facebook overtakes MySpace.

Madonna reinvents herself at least twice.

Teenagers learn that their parents aren’t as stupid as previously thought.

Life goes on.

Even when you didn’t think it would, the earth continues to spin.

One day you wake up and realize that 5 years has passed and it still feels as though it happened yesterday.

The anger might have subsided.

The pain no longer is a constant.

But even after 5 years has passed, you realize that you miss them just as much as the day they left.

And not a moment goes by that you don’t wish they were still around.