If today has taught me anything...

[ilovesynthsound]

it's that life is very VERY precious.

please be safe everyone, and tell the people you love that you love them often.

Comments

[kungfuten]

I don't love you, but I appreciate you very much. And I want to be in your vicinity more often.

[aurax]

I couldn't agree more with this post.

[ilovesynthsound]

Got back from a funeral of a beloved friend to find out Derek's mom died.
Seems the older you get the more people die.

Just the way it is?

[sharrrk]

I think The Lion King was onto something with that whole circle of life thing. I guess Mufasa can't live forever - Simba's gotta learn to fly on his own sometime.

The stars were so bright last night.

[aurax]

That they were.

Stroh is totally Rafiki.

[emmerick]

I wish people cared enough to do so, but I'd wager 80 percent of the people reading this actually don't. It's sad, real saddddd.

[ilovesynthsound]

I guess when you're young you have the perspective that you'll live forever, death is so far away from your mind. Unless you're some goth, but even then death is something safe and controlled, not the monster that just sweeps in unforeseen.

"It is better to go to a house of mourning
than to go to a house of feasting,
for death is the destiny of every man;
the living should take this to heart. "
-Ecclesiastes 7:2

I find such words very wise, after I go to funerals I see that death is waiting for me, and it makes me try to live everyday that much better.

[emmerick]

I believe this whole heartedly. Going to a funeral for someone who commits suicide hits this home harder than ever. You really start to try and live better when an act of such selfishness causes hundreds of people around you such grief. Then if you ever though about it, it's nixed from your mind upon seeing such things.