Truth

I’ve come to the conclusion that truth doesn’t exist, and if it did, it wouldn’t matter. Nobody cares about the truth of anything. All that matters is what you, yourself, number one, BELIEVES. Doesn’t matter if facts don’t support your beliefs or if science proves them unequivocally wrong. Doesn’t matter if two million people disagree with you. You’re still right simply because you believe it. I don’t know how to live in this world. 

Minimalism

I took a shower today.  Watched some TV.  Ate something.  Picked up dog poo. That’s enough. 

Grief

The moments creep up, catching us unawares.  And the tears, they burn.  When it hits your four year old granddaughter, what can you say, what can you do, to make it go away for a baby who shouldn’t even know death yet?  And then we’re just crying along with her because it hurts so damn bad to know she’s gone and never coming back.  And we’re all lost again, wondering why she had to leave us.  Jesus, it hurts.  

The Dog

The dog is hovering.  Either I’m about to die or he really hates the smell of garlic bread..

Nihilism

We’re born, we live, we die.  There is no purpose.  So, do what you want.

Morals and ethics are man-made constructs, and like so many man-made constructs, flawed in the way all human things are flawed, by not being thought all the way through.  By only making sense to some, not the whole.  

But is it “wrong” for us (as humans) to make constructs out of ethereal thoughts and ideas?  Is it “wrong” to strive?  

I don’t have any answers.

Four years ago ...

Four years ago, I closed my office door and warned people to only seek admittance for work-related conversations.  I was beyond terrified that the country of my birth had elected a clown, an idiot, a megalomaniac narcissist, and a potential psychopath to the highest office in the land.  I simply didn’t know what to do next.  

Now, as we should be ushering in a new regime, the terror continues.  I’ve lost faith in my government, my neighbors, and even my spouse as people succumb to the vitriol of lies, hatred, and blatant violence of a man who “should” never have held any kind of elected office, let alone the presidency.  I am ashamed to be an American. 

Alas

So many dogs.  So little time.