myspace blog

so I've been writing blogs for a long time.
and I have some that I really love on my myspace blog,
so I'm going to start just transferring them to this blog,
one at a time.

so here is #1:


right now I was just struck by the fragility of life.

we look at these bodies and they seem so inconquerable,
we fall and break a bone, but it can be mended.
we tear our skin; it can be healed.
we get sick; we take antibiotics.

we take for granted that the human body
is a fragile system that has a very specific balance.

we abuse our bodies, sleeping too little,
filling them with toxins like alcohol and coffee.
we should be caring for these precious temples.

you look at a life and you see a person
as a person, but do you see their soul?
do you see the people who love them?
the people they have changed or supported?

we hear of these tragedies on the news,
but do we really ever understand the loss?
does anyone really ever understand until
it touches them personally? until one day,
that person you pass everyday on the street
isn't there. that friend or family
member is gone. then you see how they
changed your life. or how they didn't.
how they could have.

you see a picture of someone,
and all you're seeing is a face.
but its the face of someone who
is no longer here. isn't it strange
to think that life can be taken
in an instant? the one thing
we're sure about in life is life.
it's all in the breathing and the
pumping of blood and oxygen,
those involuntary reactions that
keep us alive, but what about
when those reactions stop?
life has to end at some point;
but is anyone ever really ready?

this is why we push on,
why we take risks and
live and love as we do.
because even though
death is always inevitable,
we don't let it keep us from living.