I got a recent ask on Tumblr about why I’ve begun to add this phrase to the end of my shows, streams, and panels.
It’s to remind me, and everyone, how important it is to actually say out loud, that you love the people you love. Whether they’re family, extended family, lovers, children, friends, friends-turned-found-family, even pets. Every single one of the people you love deserves to hear that. And you deserve to hear it in return.
I didn’t get the chance to say it to Granny before she died earlier this year, and I wouldn’t want my worse enemy to go through the grief I have over not having that chance, and feeling like they didn’t express their love to the people who have gone before.