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As I cannot post on Dickey's site and have no clue as to why, I am taking the liberty and posting what Birdman wrote - I hope he does not mind -
DEATH
I've wrestled with death, not mine, I'm still here annoying folk... but I guess with the med battle I had, I saw the potentiality of death. But no, I've wrestled with people dying. Special people. I've talked to countless people and spent many hours in introspection. Nobody has answers. Talked to preachers and priests and many not of the cloth....
one man of faith told me one thing, and I like it.
I have trouble feeling the ones I loved gone lived for no purpose. It bothers me much, the unfullfilled, since they were not adults.
But what I was told is a noble thing. Think of the ones gone, and think of what their best traits were. Calmness, kindness, whatever. Find one that is one you are lacking in...... and embrace it. Make it a goal to make it a trait of yours; learned albeit.
For then they left a gift, and their life had one purpose that you carry on and maybe impart on others through it's good effect.
I can find a few from Red Dog. I picked his traits of acceptance and calmness, ones I woefully need.
God Bless THE DOG, he lives on in all of us.