Hmmm....
Yesterday when I left work I wasn’t in a shining mood. I was more disgruntled with the world and myself more than anything. I knew that in order to have a productive evening I shouldn’t go straight home. I cycled around the city at a leisurely pace. No hurry. No rush. Just taking my time to sort out the day and situations in my feeble mind with hope that when I walked through my front door the world would disappear. When I arose this morning at 7:50 for the third day in a row (after I deliberately went to bed at 10:30) I knew this wasn’t going to be a fun day.
Riding to work in the misty morning haze on the Midtown Greenway, I saw the same three homeless bodies under salvaged blankets trying to sleep. Start counting your blessings you ass.
I admit it, I’m blessed. I have a warm bed with blankets, pillows and all. I have a warm place to leave my belongings and not worry about them walking away. I have my health! I have an amazing girlfriend that loves me with actions and gesture. I have my parents that love and support me in all their parental ways with an ear to gripe to and a checkbook to balance injustice. My friends! Chuck! Without them I’d go crazy. Without my coworkers I’d go crazy.
Yesterday I was reading my friend’s page on LiveJournal and I came to David’s entry. I didn’t read the entire thing because I reasoned that when he arrived at work I’d just give him a hug and that’d be that. He didn’t come into work.
Today I printed his entry out and read his words in their entirety. Weighing our worlds and his words while taking a shit, I became more despondent. I’m fucking blessed, yet here I sit bitching about situations I have no control over - to hell with this circumstance! Thank you David for adding some perspective into my world.
Riding to work in the misty morning haze on the Midtown Greenway, I saw the same three homeless bodies under salvaged blankets trying to sleep. Start counting your blessings you ass.
I admit it, I’m blessed. I have a warm bed with blankets, pillows and all. I have a warm place to leave my belongings and not worry about them walking away. I have my health! I have an amazing girlfriend that loves me with actions and gesture. I have my parents that love and support me in all their parental ways with an ear to gripe to and a checkbook to balance injustice. My friends! Chuck! Without them I’d go crazy. Without my coworkers I’d go crazy.
Yesterday I was reading my friend’s page on LiveJournal and I came to David’s entry. I didn’t read the entire thing because I reasoned that when he arrived at work I’d just give him a hug and that’d be that. He didn’t come into work.
Today I printed his entry out and read his words in their entirety. Weighing our worlds and his words while taking a shit, I became more despondent. I’m fucking blessed, yet here I sit bitching about situations I have no control over - to hell with this circumstance! Thank you David for adding some perspective into my world.