Time It’s Not The Same For Everyone!
Author: Bill Garwood
Time: It’s Not the Same for Everyone!
In the snap of your fingers, the world can change. Every day, things change and move on; people’s lives can change!
I don’t want to sound grim here, but in the last 2 weeks there have been several “famous folks” who have passed away. I always remember hearing, “Oh, it goes in 3s,” meaning people, mostly famous, seem to die in groups of 3. We need to stay away from those people.
Life is fragile; even people who seem very tough or incredibly healthy can fall over at the drop of a hat. I always wondered where that saying came from, if you drop your hat, you can be seriously injured? Well, only if you drop your hat in front of an oncoming train, and then only if you chase after it.
The person that everyone in the 70s looked up to was Eule Gibbons. He told us, “Eat everything natural." He said he would live to be 100 years old. Nope, he only made it to 60 or so; he must have eaten a bad forest.
Even old Jack LaLanne, the exercise guru who had several TV shows. He once said, “I have to stay in shape, I can’t even have a cavity”. He was fairly old, but he still tipped over. It’s called life!
Part of the cycle of life is death. I know it's not a pleasant thought, but it actually is. I cannot imagine living for hundreds of years. Think some of the music is bad now? There is an old saying: (I’m full of them) “People who wish for immortality can’t find anything to do on a rainy Sunday afternoon”.
I’m always amazed at “celebrities” saying, “My work has made me immortal”. Nope, you get the same urn or hole in the ground that we all do. They might have a big stature or monument left behind, but it’s always just going to be where teenagers hang out drinking beer. The only true immortality is from the knowledge passed on by good teachers! And family members that you listen to! And the word of God!
I have said before in my articles: live, go out and experience life. We have all had to work and make a living, that’s part of it all, it can be really rewarding. How many times are we all in Wal-Mart, and see somebody we know from Townsend? The world is a small place sometimes; treasure that.
We have all known folks around here who were here one day and gone the next. I have watched it happen right here in Townsend. People whom I used to spend the morning with BS-ing… meaning talking and gaining the wisdom of the ages, were gone the next day.
Life can be scary! Or if you believe in a certain Jewish Carpenter’s Son, life never truly ends, and isn’t so scary!
Live, laugh, love! For tomorrow, we may hear about the return of Disco. NOOoooo!
