May has finally arrived. Hopefully more Spring/Summer
like weather will be coming along with it. At least I think we can finally put
the thought of snow behind us until much later this year. But of course that
will be here before we all realize it the Summer has come and gone already. A
long time ago, I read somewhere that time itself was speeding up and that’s why
it seems more and more we have less time to do things and each day, week,
month, season, and year just seem to keep coming and going and blending into
one another faster and faster. I don’t think I really buy into that notion. It
seemed that Summers and Holiday Vacations went too fast already back when I was
a kid.
No, I don’t think it’s as much as time speeding up as it
is all the things we try to cram into that time nowadays. Instead of making our
live easier, technology it seems has made our live much busier than they
necessarily need to be. I think that’s one of the reasons I look forward to the
Summer so much now, even though those wonderful two and half months of being
off from school are far behind me. It’s those little family trips and the
annual vacation that take us away from all the grind and I can just enjoy
spending the day doing something fun without having to worry about anything
else. Which brings to mind a stupid-ass Cadillac commercial that was running last
year, inferring that Europeans aren’t hard working because they take a whole
month off. Just goes to show how much corporate America (and thusly the
American government) are so out of touch the backbone of this country – the working
class and impoverished. Sorry Caddy, but we work our butts off everyday just to keep a roof over our heads and we only take a week off because that's all we get ... if we're lucky.
But I’m getting sidetracked here. What got me to thinking
today was the culmination of some anniversaries that rolled around this week.
First the sad one – it’s been almost a month since Willy has been gone, and of
course I still miss him. It’s hard to have an animal in your life for so long
and not to miss having them around when they are gone. It’s still tough for me
to go up and feed Flash and Hershey and not see him waiting in his usual spot.
He was a real good cat.
The second one is a much happier one and a decade in the
making. I started this blog with a post wondering where the “missing” decade of
the 20-aughts went, but at least I can say that this particular decade of
2005-2015 has been a whirlwind of good things. It’s kind of ironic though,
considering I never thought I would be where I am today, which brings to mind
the current State Farm commercial about the guy who is “never” going to do
something, until he does in the next scene. That was pretty much me for my
early life, back in the days where I was sure I wouldn’t live to see 40, and
even now up to today as we finish celebrating Abby’s 7 month birthday.
I think I can finally say that I am finally satisfied
with where my life is today, and where it may be going in the future. There’s a
calm and peacefulness that I haven’t felt for a long time. Now if we can only
get that month off to really enjoy it. At least we’ll still have Hersheypark
this summer to slow down and take a breath while looking forward to the next
decade, one which sure has heck not have a Cadillac in it.
In the mean time, here’s a link to a video for a segment
Bill Maher did on the commercial. I found it quite amusing, and true: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjqIgeFR6Ds
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