Hold on...just let me...

So its 2016 and already the month is halfway over. Stores are preparing for Valentines day the day after Christmas but what else is new right? I sit here and I look at my news feed and it seems like nothing but death is looming. David Bowie, Alan Rickman, Gilligan( from Gillians Island), and Rene Angelil (Celine Dion's husband). I don't know if its an omen I get death happens everyday, I just don't remember a time when so many celebrities died so close together. If it is an omen then what is it saying, what does it mean for this year? I shudder to think! I think the world has so much going on already it doesn't need anything else added. I think if its gonna be a "hell of a year" then by all means lets have a little fun and not give us signs or omens...surprise us...throw us off guard. Maybe thats what the world needs. I don't know,I'm no expert. Kinda like having a wet slippery floor with no wet floor sign...let's just see what happens.

 Me personally I'm always up for surprises, good or bad. If they are good then you are happy you are laughing cause you didnt see it coming. If its bad you are stunned,speechless,shocked...you are like "Fuck I didnt see that shit coming"!! It can make life pretty interesting either way. Sometimes in life we get so caught up in our routine or in or day to day tasks we forget to stop and look around, we forget to take a moment. I think a surprise can shake things up maybe even cause you to see things from a different angle or light. Sometimes lives need that, sometimes we all need that so that maybe we can see something that is right in front of our face that we otherwise cannot see.

 I don't know when people started getting so into themselves and everyday rountines that we started taking everyone and everything for granted.  We became a society of "just one more second" and then I'll pay attention. A society of "just let me finish this game" or "just let me finish looking at Facebook". A society of "hold on...just let me". Perhaps if surprises were more in everyones life we would realize what is more important. Like I said surprises can be good,a surprise visit from someone can make us realize how much we missed them. But sometimes...just sometimes....bad ones are the ones that truly make us have epiphanies. Now I'm not saying I want bad things to happen...no thats not it. I'm just saying it is the trying times in life that priorities become in line. When there is a tragic accident it makes us see the importance of people it makes us believe in prayer, it makes us hold our kids a little tighter at night. Facebook,video games, distractions are forgotten and all we focus on is the here and now and what matters most. Too often lately people have forgotten the here and now their loved ones have become "expected". They are expected to always be there,they are expected to be ok. We took things for granted, we took things like a phone call or letter for granted we thought it would always be there, we never expected that technology would come and replace the sound of a long distance loved one with a email or text. But it has. If you knew something tragic was going to happen to your loved one would you say "hold on...just let me..." would you send a text or email or would you drop what your doing and call or visit. Would you tell them what they mean to you and hear their voice saying what you mean to them. Well surprise...made you think....