Every year we hear this is the worse winter ever. We know we shouldn't be eating that but it's the first thing we reach for. Lovers fall into the arms of people that certainly remind everyone else of their ex's, and yet for all our technological advances, where racism and bigotry are concerned we seem condemned to repeat the mistakes of the past.
Yet in the midst of all this drudgery, sometimes a spark shines true. The discovery of a new restaurant; meeting of a new BFF, falling in love, giving birth. Similarly, sometimes the blip on the timeline is not a new spark but a light going out. It's been a particularly hard weekend for me with the loss of my friend. And I think as always when something like this happens, especially to someone that is so young, we question ourselves. Our place in the "scheme of things". Are we living right? Have we given back?
Death is a funny thing; not funny 'ha-ha' but funny strange. Do we mourn the loss of the person?Or do we mourn the loss of innocence as we are brought face to face with a more grim reality. "People die, and the world moves on." We somehow desire the rest of the planet to stop and mourn with us. To rent and cry and vent and well.., MOURN. But they don't. It doesn't concern them, it's not their reality.
They go about their daily business oblivious that a mother has lost a son; a father a daughter; a brother a sister, friend or lover. With all the information overload that we are faced with daily, are we still in touch with the "people in our village"? Do we truly see them; see their pain? Do we know how our 'neighbours' are getting on? Do we even care? Or have we in the rush to get 'the next big thing' have we sacrificed feelings for GUCCI and mutual respect for PRADA.
I can speak only for myself. But I see 2010 as a significant year. Change is in the air. And this is never more evidenced as by the loss of a loved one.
THINGS DON'T ALWAYS STAY THE SAME. LEON WE WILL MISS YOU.
Leon Hamilton 1970 - 2010
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