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I know this is a little out of sorts but I ask you to have some patience. This article isn't as colorful as where to find someone and isn't as hot as strippers and its not about having better sex but it's important and it hits close to home for me. I have chosen to present this to you now, in mid week, as to not disturb the schedule for the next articles, which have already been written for you.
At some point during our little lives we are confronted with the inevitable. The unexplainable cycle of life which binds us all together. It is not determined by which class structure you live in, it can not be bought or sold or traded or ignored. It is the one outcome that regardless of what paths in our lives we choose we will all have ' death. Death defined by Webster as ' a permanent cessation of all vital functions: the end of life. Known to us fellow mortals as the one thing we fear most because we can not explain it. We find no logical rational reason for it. Our minds can not begin to ponder the questions of how or why and so we go about our daily lives as if it 'can't get us'. It's a game of tag you're it and we spend our time hiding behind the trees, hoping it won't find us.
But it eventually does and those of us that remain within it's shadow find ourselves speechless, heart broken and feeling hopeless. This is when we realize life is more than coordinating our fashion with the seasons of the year or what is the latest movie to break on screen or how to go about getting laid. And you know what? It sucks. WHY? Why do we suddenly wake up to the realities of life only when we are confronted with death? Are we that feeble minded? That self involved that the only time we stop to smell the fucking roses is when we realize they may not bloom next spring?
So what now? Life stops? No more drinking for a while, maybe a week or two? Don't forget to not joke, hey that would be wrong at a time like this, right? No, it wouldn't be. It's called life and though we may not be able to control it's outcome we should not allow the fucking outcome to dictate how and why we choose to live the way we do. Are you lost? Do you know where I am going with this?
Why suddenly when someone dies do we choose to isolate ourselves for a brief moment of time and spend our days crying and feeling sad? Shouldn't we do just the opposite? Realize we will die one day also and for that reason and that reason alone continue living. Living as we did before the person we cared about passed on? Isn't that what it's all about? Rejoicing in life? Spending the time here on this God forsaken earth being happy and doing what we love to do? Shouldn't death remind us of that and not become an obstacle to it?
I am not saying that grieving is wrong or shouldn't be practiced, but neither is life. So our heart is a little broken, we're not the first. And we are confronted with regrets. So, they are always there, we just don't choose to recognize them until they confront us during times like these. Do you think that if every single person who ever died had the chance of coming back, even if only for a day, would spend it locked up in a room crying? Would spend it isolating themselves? No, they wouldn't. They'd go out and live ' LIVE LIFE. They'd have a beer or watch a movie or go shopping. So why shouldn't we do the same while we are here? If not for our own selfish needs then maybe do it for them.
So, go out now and have a beer. Enjoy life while you have it regardless of what trials and tribulations life may throw out at you. Remember you are alive and you shouldn't act as if you died until you actually do. I refuse to let death break me, not while I am alive and you shouldn't either. I am not the one that died. You can't expect me to stop living. It may sound cold to some but maybe a few of you can understand.
This is perfect weather for a cold beer and mom�¢?�¦.this
one's for you.