Similarities

I'm thinking that 2:30 in the morning thoughts... should be illegal. No one should be able to think that late at night. Granted, it was a blessing and I needed it. It just made me cry myself to sleep. I got thinking about this man right here. 

This man is the best of the best. I love him so much and I miss him more than I could even imagine being possible. I got thinking about how much I wish that this man could meet him. 

I wish so bad that Justin could have met my Bampa. I sent Justin a text (keep in mind it was 2:00am, I was tired, and thinking too much... so bare with me) The text went something like this:

 Sometimes... staying up late is not healthy... It makes me think. NO one likes thinking. Especially at 2am. Unless, it's happy thinking. In this case... It's not really happy that happy. I miss my Grandpa. He was a great man and I have so many great memories with him. I just wish I could have more. I wish more than anything that you could have met him. He would have loved you! Well... I know for a fact that he does love you. He helped bring you to me. I really do give credit to my Grandpa. One of the last things I told him was that when he gets to the other side, I want him to find me someone as good as he is. Well, it wasn't a month later that you were very much apart of my life. Just texting you when I was upset... and now we are dating! I know he approves of you. I know he helped us get together. I know that he approves, and that is no small task in my family. It takes a very special, wonderful, amazing man to get my Grandpa's approval. And you got it. I shouldn't be upset that he never got to meet you... Because, he knows you. I just wish you could have met the man who is my hero. The man I could run to with anything. The man was was always so proud of me, who encouraged me, who could always make me laugh, the man who I  could crawl in bed with, watch a movie, and sleep peacefully next to. (This is when I started to sob, full on crying, sobbing, trying to catch my breath) Oh my heck! Justin! I just realized I described you! You filled a hole inside of me that I never thought could be filled after my Grandpa passed away. I still miss my Grandpa terribly, but you filled the parts of the hole that needed to be filled.

I was pretty traumatized after I wrote that. I could have kept going on and on about how wonderful my Grandpa was, but I was so worked up that I couldn't keep going. Now, that I am not as tired and not hysterical. I want to put up the similarities between the two. For the full on posts about the two you can click here for Justin and click here for my Grandpa on my Grandpa the second post titled "The Talk I gave at my Bampa's funeral" is the one that describes him the best. If you don't want to read those forever long, mushy, sentimental stuff... then you can just read the condensed version that I am putting up next :)

~ They both put high priority on family. Family always comes first in their book.

~ They will go to the end of the world to make you happy. 

~ They both have this sense of peace about them. When they are around it's like I am instantly calm. I know that nothing could ever hurt me. 

~ They both can put me to sleep when I lay next to them with my head on their shoulder.

~ They are both happy when you are happy. I remember my Grandma telling me that my Grandpa was happy when she was happy. If she would ask him what he thought about something, or what he wanted to do he would always say "as long as you're happy, I'm happy" Justin is very much like that. 

~ Both my Grandpa and Justin have more faith in me than I do. If I am feeling down about myself or feeling like I just can't do what is required of me, I know that they both think that I can.

~ Just like my Grandpa, Justin will always "be right there!" I don't think I have ever asked Justin to do anything that his response wasn't "yep! I'll do that!" 

~ Both love supporting people in their activities. For example: soccer games, baseball games, etc. 

~ They both love the Gospel and the church. No one is perfect, but they both live a good and honest life. They would never do anything to hurt anyone and are always striving to be better. 

I'm sure that there are more similarities. In fact I know that there are, I just can't think of them at the moment, because 3 hours of sleep is catching up to me. I'll post more as they come. 

All in all I just thought it was amazing the similarities in these 2 wonderful men. I am a pretty lucky girl that my Heavenly Father loves me enough to have let these men make such a huge impact on my life.