Life goes on.
Recently a long ago friend of mine
died. He was a classmate of mine and he remains in my memory as the
young athlete/scholar that we was. Several of my classmates have
passed on in the last few years and they still remain vivid memories
in my mind. A portion of who that person was live on in my memory.
If you think about it, aren't we keeping those people alive with our
memories? I would like to think so. I know that I remember my
father so well that sometimes I expect him to be around the house
ready to give me his counsel. Often my dreams include folks who have
been gone a long time, but still remain in my mind. Someday, when
our whole generation has passed along, we will be forgotten and there
will be no memory of us – just names on a page. I suppose that's
why I write a bit about what I'm thinking – just in case someone
may read it someday and realize just who I was and what I thought. I
wish I had some of the thoughts from earlier relatives expressed on
paper so that I would know who they were and what they thought. We
are here such a short time (in retrospect). The world goes on and
life proceeds.
I'm not sure that I left this Earth a
better place than it was when I was born. Collectively, we have made
a mess of our home and it really is time to clean up the mess. When
we were young we assumed that we had plenty of time to correct any
mistakes we made. Looking back on life, it's obvious that we should
have made corrections along the way when they were small instead of
waiting until they became tremendous. It appears that Climate Change
will affect the whole human race within the next few decades. I hope
that man can adapt.
I have noticed that mankind has taken a
path that leads away from the general welfare of humanity and towards
the accumulation of wealth and power by just a few. I had thought
that those days, like the 1890s and the robber barons, were through
but the rich and powerful are trying their best to wrest control of
everything away from the people of the Earth. I suppose it will take
a catastrophe or a revolution to restart society on the correct path.
Of course, I won't be there to witness, but I'm hopeful that it will
happen. During my lifetime, I have seen many changes – many
innovations – many changes in attitude. We seem to be drifting
away from caring about the employee, or the customer, or the student,
or the hungry, or the homeless. It's sad to see that change.
This has been a year for health issues in my family. I ended up with kidney failure and now exist because of daily dialysis. My daughters are both fighting Fibromyalgia, which can be very painful. My brother just had a complete hip replacement - he had been in much pain and could hardly walk. My sister was hit by their car while trying to hook up their camping trailer - she broke her back in several places and her leg and has some serious contusions and remains in the hospital looking forward to months of rehabilitation. Hopefully we will all get better and have a much better year in 2015. It doesn't hurt to hope. You adjust your life to the new situations as they occur and life goes on.
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