I guess that's how you would spell that lyric from the David Bowie song...
This is my favorite David Bowie song... it's not "Changes"...
Secretia has a thread going on her blog about "changes"...
In December, 2008, we had our annual Christmas Party for our area at the Alluvial Flood Plain State University... and one of my friends... one of my colleagues... several of us made the comment that, "damn he doesn't look good..."
He had a doctor's appointment the next week... and just several weeks later, on Christmas Day... he died... he had pancreatic cancer... we don't know that he ever thought he was sick...
His wife and I have been friends forever and a day... went to kindergarten together... grade school... high school...
Her Dad died Christmas Day, 2009... I wonder how she will view the rest of the Christmases she has to experience... Will they ever be happy for her again??
We tend to think of time as being a "looping" process... we say things like, 'this time next year... ' like it will be the same... only a year away...
One of my favorite books is "The Path To Tranquility"... daily wisdoms compiled by the Dalai Lama... and one of them says this...
"Time never waits but keeps flowing. Not only does time flow unhindered, but correspondingly our lives too keep moving onward all the time."
"If something goes wrong, we cannot turn back time and try again. In that sense, there is no genuine second chance."
I like that... I really like that...
~shoes~
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....sigh.
ReplyDeleteno second chances....
that really sucks.
:|
That is my favorite DB song too. My father died this time of year too and it always makes me sad but life goes on. I used to do business with this guy and one day he showed up where I work. I said; Man you look bad and he said; Yea cancer will do that to you. I didn't know. He died about a month later. He was only 30.
ReplyDeleteChange is inevitable. Life is full of misery but without it there would be no joy. The best thing to do is keep the good memories and let go of everything else in the past, make plans for the future as if there is one, and live each day passionately as if it were your last.
ReplyDeleteIt's true there is no second chance, there is no "this time I will get it right". Because this time will be different.
ReplyDeleteMay peace be with you!! Darn girl!! thanks for stopping by!!!!
ReplyDeleteI am so sorry for yor friend. Two people so close to her both dying on Christmas day for the last 2 years. Wow.
ReplyDeleteThere's just this time.
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