Regardless

I was looking back on the Facebook page Getting Your Breath Back... and here's a lovely thought:

I would only be grateful when I realized I would rather have known you for a moment than never at all. I would rather endure this inexplicable pain of outliving you than to never have seen your face, spoken your name. I would rather be yours and you be mine, regardless. Regardless of the sorrow, regardless of the ache, and regardless of the years I will walk this earth carrying you - not in my arms - but in my heart.