Trust Me, It Goes On

This hasn't been a really good week for a lot of people, both globally and on the family level. There is a lot of people out there really hurting. Some there suffering is out there for us to see, broad-casted almost non-stop right to our living room. Others are suffering in the quiet of this busy, busy world, un-noticed and out of sight. This week has sure made me think some about what we hold dear and cherish. I've been rising a little earlier than I usually do just to think. There are just so many things that can grab my attention, many steal it from the thought that stole it from the previous thought. It's quite unfortunate I think, because this week I felt that many of the things that grabbed my attention initially demanded more than the usual pondering amount alloted. But true to the gravity that accompanied this week's various events, the thoughts crept into, and then, dominated my daily tasks. Needles to say I was not as productive as I could have been, and that too is unfortunate.
What finally came out of this week was the realization that our lives can be slowed down. They can come under control (r thrown completely out of control), they can be tamed (or set free), however it's probably going to come at a time when we least expect it. If you think you life is to big to be altered, to out of control to be fixed, or to even to perfect to be ruined, consider this. One isolated event (the Japanese earthquake) was able to alter Earth's by 1.3 microseconds, move the main island of Japan east 13 ft, and alter the axis in which Earth rotates by 4 inches. Proof that nothing is to big to be shaken. It works in the opposite direction too. Sometimes life is altered in the best possible way, often at the very last minute, and when all hope is lost. But in the end what I'm trying to say is that you have to live. Be what you and others, but mostly others need.