About things that make you sad are supposed to help.
Dan Wheldon, died today in an Indy Race in Las Vegas when he crashed his car into the guardrail, he was just thirty-three years old. Our condolences go out to his family and friends and race associates.
No, that didn’t make me feel any better, and I am sure it didn’t help you either.
Why?
I didn’t even know the young man.
And he is only one person, when thousands of other nameless people die daily too; maudlin.
Our thoughts cannot be of all this all of the time.
We, as a people would never ever be happy… and we do deserve to find ‘some’ happiness.
It’s not that we don’t care; it’s more the fact that we cannot allow such realities to consume us.
On the chance that I might off-put some I will move on to something more positive… what some of our friends are doing this weekend.
A Facebook friend and her Hubby are on a romantic island get-away for the week not just the weekend.
The island is one of the most pristine here in southwest Florida, Captiva; a lucky couple!
For those of you who are not familiar with Captiva, the sister to the larger Sanibel Island has some of the best shelling in the world!
For more info go to this site: http://www.captivaisland.com/ , a great vacation location for you non-locals to think about.
It is not too close to us but not that faraway either and Hubby and I used to go for the day via our little nineteen foot Sea Hunt center console when I was still able to get on and off of it…ah memories.
Without them, what have we got?
In those days we used to love to swim and fish and shell and stop for lunch at one of the many restaurants that pepper our island hopping Gulf shorelines. You could dock there and go in or eat outdoors, which we used to do especially when Skipper our Bichon was along for the day, which was usually always… He was one of many who came before him and they too would be our shipmates!
(Benji (b.1984-d.1998) and Brandi (b. 1988-d.2004) our Yorkies, Andrew (b.1992-d.2001) our collie/Shepard mix…) There were more but my memory isn’t as good as it should be, thus this unsolicited memoir.
Oh no!
I went back to that topic again… death!
I suppose we cannot escape it, but we all must go on and live our lives with the respect that living gives to us, no matter how badly we may feel, hmm?
Have you at any particular age felt uncertain?
Sure you have.
I feel as if I am an adolescent that needs to find her self…somewhere…
As if lost.
I know you all know where I am, here, at any given moment in time, most all nights...
But where am I when not here?
Hmm?
Am I being the best I can be for me?
Not for you or you or you, but selfishly for me?
Something to ponder over, hmm?
Death can teach us to not to waste what little time we all have left, in other words a healthy person, doesn’t know either, hmm?
Hit by a bus or crash in car or killed in the wrath of Mother Nature, hmm?
And so no matter how we physically feel day after day, we must do whatever it takes to make the most of each and everyone we get… and so I have been trying to do that and will continue in that vein of reality to learn to live from death…
As we all should.
Hefty stuff tonight but it had to be said to myself, not that I gave up or anything, since we all know each day is a new beginning or the first day of the rest of our lives… or whatever other clichés you need or I need to get motivated to not fall into the doldrums.
Self talk does work, and so that is what we should all do in a positive way, right? RIGHT!
On that note of trying hard to find the good in all sadness for us to remember that life is too short to not enjoy it to the fullest… allow me to be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and to ask you to kindly count all your blessings and to share all those overages and we will too!
And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?
PS I just figured out why I am having all these many grammatical mistakes my TIA'S, mini strokes! That explains it, gosh and I just thought I got stupid that is to say more stupid!LOL!
Speaking My Mind is about: Tobi, who is a middle aged, no, oh all right a slightly over the hill woman with all the imperfections that go with that, and this concerns her daily life's perceptions and experiences.
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