Current mood:  calm 
Category: Friends

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Current mood:  flirty 
Category: Life

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Current mood:  amused 
Category: Movies, TV, Celebrities

Troy: Adam…

Adam: I, I was just going…

Troy: I know…

Adam: Then, then she just went “Aieeeee”

Troy: I know, I know…

Adam: I didn’t mean to scare her…

Troy: Of course you didn’t…

Adam: Nothing I do with her ever seems to be right.

Troy: That’s because you are a nice boy, Adam. What Eve needs is a nice man. Understand, Champ?

Adam: Goodnight, Troy.

Current mood:  surprised 
Category: Life

I was at the gym last night, watching the series pilot of Dead Like Me, and it got me thinking. I had watched the show when it first came out a few years ago, and really enjoyed it. I had read the Incarnations of Immortality series by Piers Anthony in high school and the book On A Pale Horse took this same view. Death was a person and their job was to collect the souls of the dying. It isn’t the view I have of death, but an interesting read none the less.

Anyways, in the tv show, the main character isn’t really doing anything with her life, but at the age of 18, dies in a freak accident. In this first episode, as an invisible ghost for lack of better term, she attends her funeral and wake. At first she’s cynical at the reactions of the guests, saying that people feel obligated to say nice things about the deceased. But then she sees the genuine reaction of the people close to her, and it surprises her. While she had conflict and, in the case of her younger sister, almost no meaningful interactions, the family experienced bona fide sadness at their loss.

Lately I’ve had a similar experience. I felt like that main character. I’m just here. Not that I want to change the world, but if I’m one of a billion drones just marching around this planet, what’s the use? I thought I was doing something worthwhile, but I wasn’t getting any feedback, and then when I did, it was all negative. I look back on my life, and I’m miles away from where I was, but still have many more miles to go.

Then I had some things happen that I didn’t expect. I received encouragement from someone I haven’t spoken with much for the last six month. I got a real letter in the mail. A group of my friends and I went to lunch. Someone called me about her new project, and wants me to help. A hug here, a kind word there, they started adding up to something tangible. My theme song in high school was Don’t know what you got till it’s gone but the problem was, I would go, but nobody would notice. Now, I wasn’t even gone, but people noticed. I don’t do the things I do for the praise, but it’s really hard to do in a vacuum. Even a cactus needs water sometimes…