Wednesday, February 9, 2011
A comment from my sister on my thought last night
I think you have it all wrong.
Richie spoke. Knew people from childhood and knows people now. Calls people by name. Liked to take rides in the car. He called them beely rides. He adored his father and mourned his loss more than anyone. He likes blankets with satin. He liked peanut butter when he was young…still does. He used to love to sit in the sun in the yard. He loved the way the sun felt. Still loves to be taken outside in the sun. Loves one of the aids at the home he lives in and waits for him to arrive every day. He never knew he lived? Really?
Maybe he hasn’t lived like everyone else. He doesn’t have a car payment or a mortgage he can’t afford. He doesn’t go everyday to a job he despises. If he doesn’t like someone, he doesn’t deal with them. He doesn’t have to fake it….or kiss but to be liked nor does he care if he is liked. He is a human being with all the feelings you and I have, (bet on that) without all the social garbage that makes us assholes.
Most “normal” people like to think people like Richie are without emotion, without thought process, without knowledge or tangible things and events. But other cases where a person who is affected but can communicate tells us differently. There recently was a 9 year old girl who has never spoken and most thought was so severe that she never would. Someone handed her a communication device. She immediately began ttyping and telling her parents things. Things she remembered from childhood, things she liked and things she didn’t. She taught herself to read at an early age…when the experts thought she was not learning a thing. She was “living” and she knew it. But the experts tell us she wasn’t “living”.
If you ask those who knew him, those who took care of him before and those who take care of him now what they think of him…..he has touched their lives. Touched them because he was handed a plate of struggles and keeps on keeping on. He has an inner strenght that nobody can explain. He is cranky, yet funny. He has withstood alot of things that those who “know thy were alive” couldn’t, yet he continues living and loving. Most of “those who know they were alive” would be suicidal at best. He has touched many lives and most won’t forget him. He has brought the best out in people; their caring, their sympathy, thier happiness at his happines. Will the end of your days be the same? Will you have brought the best out in the people in your life? Or will you be the lonely man who never knew he lived? Just some food for thought.
My thoughts last night ..
…May have been wrong. I need to think on it more.. Thanks to my sister who opened a new door of thought on the lonely man—who may never have been lonely to begin with..
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Who will be there when the lonely man dies?
Death is a strange thing … Life perhaps is stranger.
Forgive me for this strange post, but a few personal developments today have my mind racing, and writing thoughts is helping..
The boy was born without the understanding that he was born. Who was there when he was alive?
A life of sadness now over.. who will be there when he dies?
It was not his choice to be without understanding. It was not his choice to be alone. And it certainly was not his punishment. But what do you make of the man who does not even know he is alive? And when that man succumbs to the fate that we all meet, and he does not even realize he ever lived, will he be near an angel from place and time when he expires from this planet? I certainly hope he does..
I never knew the man who is dying, but he never knew me. And he never knew himself. I certainly hope that we are united in love and spirit and one day, in another plane of existence. I understand that unity cannot happen on this planet.
Peace if you go tonight.. And I hope you are greeted by faces you may remember.. people who knew you your entire life but people you never knew…
A new survey of British kids show they are happier living their lives online and without real social interaction
A researcher quoted in the DAILY MAIL article said, “It’s easier to be who you want to be, because nobody knows you and if you don’t like the situation you can just exit and it is over”
Is this what the children of the world have come to? Say anything you want online! Talk to strangers! No holds barred.. Be yourself. Of course in being yourself you’re by being someone else that doesn’t exist. Your new personality is more fun than your own! Who cares what genes you were born with, you can make your own! The world is at your fingertips..
And none of it is real.
If this British survey is true to form and is accurate in its portrayal of life of a British teen (and presumably an American teen, too) then something is going awfully awry.. The net is fine. I blog on here and share some thoughts too.. But within day my wife and I are going to be parents. The baby can come at any time. And the last thing I want to do is strap a laptop on his waist and set him up with a Facebook page. We’ll see how long we can persevere on that one I guess..
A new survey of British kids show they are happier living their lives online and without real social interaction
Slick: Does Saudi Arabia have as much oil as they say they have?
WIKILEAKS: USA fears Saudi oil may have been overstated by 40%…
A cable that Wikileaks released shows that the United States is fearful that Saudi Arabia does not have the oil reserves necessary to keep oil prices down..
Within recent weeks the price has soared.. and now the Wikileaks document, as reported by the GUARDIAN in London, is sure to unsettle many people with the prospects that Saudi Arabia has overstated its reserves by, according to the report, as much as 300 billion barrels, or 40%
If you so choose, you can READ MORE AT THE GUARDIAN..
Egypt protests draw biggest crowd yet
The protesters are not backing down, still speaking out, and want Mubarak gone.. Mubarak isn’t gone. . . And the crowd gets loud. What’s next..?
First most insurance companies stopped paying for circumcisions, now this! Police officers in Louisville, Kentucky find crack hidden in a man's foreskin
And you’d think he would have hidden his crack within a crack.. Or someone’s rack. .. .
I’m confused.
Get the cops a rabbi!
First most insurance companies stopped paying for circumcisions, now this! Police officers in Louisville, Kentucky find crack hidden in a man's foreskin
But would the son of God use an iPhone? I picture him more of a Droid owner..
Either way, Catholics are now able to confess their sins in the 21st century.. in style. Yes, indeed, there’s an ‘app’ for that.. Maybe they will be able to get a live webcam to Limbo to see all those unbaptized babies!! oh..wait..! The Pope shut down Limbo in 2006.. And that was long before APPs and wireless confessions.
The holy rolling Pontiff shuts down limbo and we Catholics can now confess its evil doings all with their thumbs.
Now that’s progress.
Unfortunately, some may try to open their Catholic confessional app but get their hacked iPhone porn apps by accident..
But would the son of God use an iPhone? I picture him more of a Droid owner..
NASA tells us what is wrong with what we drive even though they can't get it up.
It’s a strange world where NASA can tell us with confidence what caused all of those problems with Toyotas, but still can’t get its own Discovery off the ground..
Michelle Obama said that the President finally stopped smoking
I just wonder if they will use the new FCC-approved presidential emergency broadcasting to communite the message from America’s leader..?
Michelle Obama said that the President finally stopped smoking
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