IN THE END, GOOD PREVAILS

The Way I C It

 

 

 

Evil is everywhere but Good outweighs evil.

 

Take a look at the blue sky or a star filled night sky.

Catch a glimpse at a flower which is still alive on a chilling winter's day.

Notice an elderly whose bones, brittle with time, continues to do daily chores.

Hear the hysterical laughter of children at play.

Glance at 2 lovers kissing in a warm embrace in public.

Recall one of many times your eyes have met with a stranger who offered to help and did.

Smell how the day has changed by falling rain or a different place you have travelled to.

Listen to the musical tones of people from a different land.

Silently laugh at a certain memory with your family or friends or a happening you noticed while out walking or even at home by yourself.

Ponder on the mystery of pregnancy, child birth, life and death, sickness and disease and we will all find that we are not very different from each other.

Times such as the above mentioned are just a few of many instances when we may take the opportunity to enjoy all the good that there is in this world and to even be appreciative of the sorrows we have experienced and learned of and from-- for if we did not have good, there would be no measure to know evil. 

At death, while in the funeral parlor waiting our turn to be embalmed for burial or prepared for cremation, we are all laid naked and next to strangers of various ethnicity and economic status.  The bounty of our labors, legacy or fortunes are not stored aside to be enclosed with us. We are then merely a lifeless, quickly atrophying body without thoughts of the evil doers who put us there or of the disease which was not diagnosed, misdiagnosed; no thoughts of how perhaps this could have been prevented by having health insurance or a better one.  

 

Finger Pointing

This method named, Finger pointing, is learned from observing our politicians who have passed the buck back and forth, placing blame on other countries, maligning leaders, alliances and anything they can differ to, rather than taking responsibility.   

 

The Way I C It,  Life may have been better if people learned to accept, appreciate and respect that the earth is a gift with enough land for all to live on, feed from and thrive from without monetary cost and tariffs to outside entities; each part of the earth was given a natural resource to barter with.

Once people learned greed, many lives were taken and peaceful existence on earth has been digressing ever since.  It is forbidden to interfere in the ways of man and his evolution.

Finger Pointing After The Loss of a Loved One.

Had it not been for the reckless driver distracted by a mobile text message or call alert, the surgeon, pilot or friend who lacked sleep, was impaired by drugs or lack of knowledge, this death would not have occurred. 

What if this death occurred due to The Illuminati's plan to depopulate the world in order to have better control of those left to survive and engage in so called the New World Order?  Perhaps thoughts like, "This is the fault of the government and it's simpatico bias for the rich, the poor, the Jews, Christians, Protestants, Mormons..." would be entertained as well.

This list of finger pointing and blame could go on and on in the lives of our loved ones left behind grieving our loss and trying to make sense of an event which is truly promised to us all. Death.

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I would prefer to believe that our last thoughts are like the ones mentioned at the beginning of this post.  I don't know about you but if I had any choice in the matter of which would be my final memories, the good ones would erase any bad ones and if any thought of malice or evil popped into my soul's experience while travelling to its' destiny to the other side, I could hopefully try to find the brighter side or replace it with one of the tiny fingers of an infant.

ME? AN ADDICT? NEVER!

NEVER SAY NEVER

Growing up in the South Bronx, I saw many things that most people only see while watching a movie or television.

There is the sweet memory of an organ grinder who stood below our window squeezing out his tunes, later sending his little green monkey dressed in a bell hop uniform with shiny round brass buttons to climb up our fire escape in order to collect the change my parents would toss into his little red cap.
The day came when I never saw the organ grinder or his monkey again.
They had been replaced by young teen-agers breathing into paper bags which covered their nose and mouths. This was a sign of the changes in time.
My parents did not allow me to go out and play anymore unless they were standing outside chatting with neighbors, reading the paper or flipping through a magazine.

I recall when the nice neighborhood community where I grew up in changed.
The police officers who wore white gloves and served as crossing guards for the children to get to school safely were replaced by the white powder named, heroin who stole our safety away and threatened us with death.

When the 60's rolled out and the 70's came in. I was now a teen-ager and saw many of my friends drop out of high school to later learn that they had died of a drug overdose and it frightened me. I would never use drugs.
I would never try something that while standing upright, would make my eyes close, my mouth hang, my voice slur and cause my knees to bend, suctioning in my torso lower and lower towards the ground into a squatting position and yet never falling to the ground.
I felt bad for the parents of those friends who had died of a drug related cause. Back then, it stigmatized and disgraced the remaining family members.
To think of it now, one would believe they had a Scarlett Letter sewn onto their clothing while in public.
I would never become an addict and be spoken of in the past tense, referred to as the one who died of a drug overdose. How humiliating!

Smoking was cool back then. Almost all the grown-ups smoked. Why, even Father Connolly and Father McDonald smoked!

One of TVs favorite dad's could be seen occasionally puffing away on The Andy Griffith Show (1960-1968). Both Dick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore smoked Kent Cigarettes in commercials on The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961-1966). And unbelievable but true is the fact that The Flintstones (1960-1966) had a tobacco brand as a key sponsor for a time. There were even commercials which showed the animated characters smoking Winston cigarettes.

Remember, Joe Camel, also known as Joe Suave and Joe Cool? Yeas, the ugly camel cartoon promoting Camel cigarettes which teenagers dubbed as, chest breakers; and who can forget the slogans made popular by television, radio and print publications?

"You've Come a Long Way, Baby" (Virginia Slims), "Come to where the flavor is" (Marlboro), "Blow some my way" (Chesterfield), "I'd rather fight than switch" (Tarreyton), Winston tastes good like a cigarette should" (Winston) and dozens of other snazzy catch phrases bombarded millions for years; even though one was more ridiculous than the last, the most laughable had to be L & M's claim that it was "Just what the doctor ordered."

Guess grown-ups were never educated enough to experiment on products that were to be ingested before releasing them to the public back then.
Never, did I think that cigarettes were also a cunning deceitful drug camouflaged by clever marketing to lure, capture and kill as heroin did!
Never imagined that while watching all the ugly as I smoked, that I too was becoming an addict, something I vowed never to become.

Nicotine is a drug and cigarette smoking is an addiction which I have had for 30 years and am still battling to end. Never say never.

Lesson learned:

Never say never.

That's the way I C it

Click On Lips And You Get A Kiss

A Letter To The One I thought My Friend

FRIENDS TILL THE END

MY LONG TERM FRIEND

WHO HAS ALWAYS BEEN THERE FOR ME.

WE ARE APPROACHING OUR RUBY RED ANNIVERSARY,

SYMBOLIC OF 40 YEARS TOGETHER.

OUR BOND IS NOT AS STRONG AS IT WAS;

TIME SOMETIMES DOES THAT.

YOU HAVE CELEBRATED WITH ME WHEN I WAS ELATED

AND COMFORTED ME WHEN MISERABLE.

WHEN OTHERS TOLD ME YOU WERE NO GOOD,

I DEFENDED YOU ADAMANTLY;

THOUGH KNOWING THEY WERE RIGHT.

I JUST COULD NOT MANAGE WITHOUT YOU

AND WOULD DO ANYTHING TO KEEP YOU WITH ME.

AT TIMES, I SILENTLY WONDERED IF

YOU WERE TOXIC TO ME  BUT 

HERE YOU ARE, STILL BY MY SIDE, STILL WITHIN ME AND

I, STILL CRAVING YOU.

 I DO NOT LOVE YOU BUT I NEED YOU.

MY SUSPICIONS WERE CONFIRMED WHEN

OTHERS EXPRESSED THEIR BELIEF THAT MY DEMISE

WILL BE CAUSED BY YOU.

 IF SO,

WILL IT BE BECAUSE I USED YOU

OR BECAUSE YOU

USED ME?

ALL DEPENDS ON THE INDIVIDUAL PERSPECTIVE.

YOU HAVE BEEN THE ONLY ONE

TO PENETRATE ME DEEPER THAN ANY OTHER.

 

WHEN I DO APPROACH MY DEATH

I KNOW I YOU WILL NOT BE ALLOWED

TO BE ANYWHERE NEAR ME.

YOU WILL HAVE NO OTHER RECOURSE

BUT TO STAY AWAY AND I

WILL BE TOO WEAKENED TO EVEN HAVE A SAY.

I WILL LEAVE YOU WITH THIS.....

IF MY DEMISE IS IN FACT YOUR DOING,

I WANT ALL TO KNOW THAT

IT WAS MY OWN DECISION TO CONTINUE WITH YOU;

WELL AWARE OF THE POSSIBLE OUTCOME.

I TAKE TOTAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR MY LACK OF STRENGTH

AND FOR ALL THE TIMES I FAILED AT LETTING YOU GO. 

YOUR GRIP ON ME WAS VERY STRONG GROWING STRONGER

WITH EACH YEAR.

I WOULD NEVER RECOMMEND YOU,

MY FRIEND TILL THE END,

TO ANOTHER LIVING BEING.

IN SPITE OF YOUR,

 LOYAL COMPANIONSHIP,

I WANT ALL TO KNOW THAT YOU AND ALL OTHERS LIKE YOU,

PERSEVERE IN A POWER STRUGGLE IN ORDER

TO PREVAIL AND PRESERVE YOUR OWN EXISTENCE BY

SLOWLY EATING US AWAY FROM INSIDE OUT.

YOU AND YOUR ENTIRE FAMILY DESERVE,

CAPITOL PUNISHMENT

WHICH I KNOW WILL SOMEDAY HAPPEN.

Well, that's the way I C it.

By the way, The Marlboro Man Died of Lung Cancer

The snippet below was taken from Wikipedia

Three men who appeared in Marlboro advertisements - Wayne McLaren, David McLean and Dick Hammer - died of lung cancer, thus earning Marlboro cigarettes, specifically Marlboro Reds, the nickname "Cowboy killers".^[11] McLaren testified in favor of anti-smoking legislation at the age of 51. During the time of McLaren's anti-smoking activism, Philip Morris denied that McLaren ever appeared in a Marlboro ad, a position it later amended to maintaining that while he did appear in ads, he was not the Marlboro Man, considering Winfield as the holder of that title. McLaren died before his 52nd birthday in 1992.^[12][13]

OXYCONTIN ADDICTION

Addicted Avatars

ADDICTION DOES NOT DISCRIMINATE

A person of any age, race, color, financial and social status will fall victim to addiction if not careful. It will take your reasoning away. Nothing matters to the addict anymore but their next fix. It will take your life away. Loving, tender individuals who had great and promising futures have died due to drug abuse, drug dependancy and drug addiction. friends. Families go through emotional roller coasters, financial hardship and even illness due to drug use of their loved ones and old friendships become strained until they must all retreat from the addict in order to heal themselves. It will ostresize the addict in their community. Neighbors begin to keep a watchful untrusting eye on the addict in their community for fear that their homes will be broken into.

How to know if you are addicted to Oxycontin

OxyContin addiction is often (but not always) accompanied by physical dependence, withdrawal syndrome, and tolerance. Physical dependence is defined as a physiologic state of adaptation to a substance. The absence of this substance produces symptoms and signs of severe withdrawal, including insomnia, anxiety, and diarrhea, muscle pain/bone pain, restlessness, involuntary leg movement, cold flashes with goose bumps, vomiting, nausea and severe stomach cramps. Large doses can cause severe, potentially fatal, respiratory depression.

More people now die of oxy abuse than of heroin, cocaine, and methamphetamine abuse combined. There were some 11,000 oxy-related overdose deaths in 2007 (the latest national figure available), a tripling since 2000, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, in Atlanta.

"The number today is much worse," says spokesman Humphreys. Emergency-room visits stemming from prescription-drug overdoses doubled from 2004 to 2009, when they topped 1.2 million, report federal health officials. This year, hospitals in the United States are reporting a surge in withdrawal symptoms in newborns.

Real Life People Whose Lives Were Claimed By Oxycontin

In April, oxy abuse claimed the life of "New York Rangers enforcer", Derek Boogard, who was enrolled in the National hockey League's drug treatment program.

"Batman" actor, Heath Ledger died in 2008 of a drug overdose that included painkillers; oxycontin being 1 of them.


If you are here reading this blog then, it may save your life or the life of someone you care for.  Please do a search on addiction and find my other blogs, then utilize what you have been informed of and begin your fight for life.  This message is meant for you.
Then again, that's just the way I C it.