Ah, 'tis been a while... I'm sorry Black Bishop followers.
My day job's been suckin' the life right outta me, mabes you know what that's like.
I do try to keep one ear to the railroad tracks though, I think it's almost hard not to. Lots seems to be happening in our world no?
Where I'm from, there's a Black Lives movement that is constantly in the news, there's two presidential candidates that are such train wrecks that they can't help cause a media circus all day, every.
Then there's my favorite blog artist and her constant uphill battle(s).
It's enough to make ones noodle break right.
I think, if you haven't read my book yet, that I should first tell you to go do that right freakin' now. Come on, it's only five bones (and free if you're one of those Kindle subscriber types).
And second, I want to tell you that it talks about living an interesting life because each and every one of us, is on display, right now. By every soul in the afterlife.
Seeing everything you see, hearing all that you hear, knowing every thought and secret you hide.
But also, praps the hardest part, understanding why it is we are all different. Feeling the same pain you felt, crying the same tears and wallowing in the same despair.
We seem to try to tell ourselves that our actions don't really matter. That no matter what we do, no good will come from it. And, no bad.
Because it's easier that way huh.
So perchaps I'm wrong, there is no afterlife, no movies of lives we all get to watch.
No reason to be a good person. Or a bad.
But that just doesn't seem useful to me. If I live in an indestructible bubble, what good is a flyswatter..?
I think I'll use my perspective, at least for a while, to help me understand that there has to be crappy people out there. There just HAS to be.
They might make the rest of us look better, they might be a measuring stick all the countless other souls can grade with.
They might fill us with conflict, they might provide us with a passion.
Or... they might just help us learn by example.
If you have kids (or know any), you know that it is very difficult to teach a human with mere instruction. We can tell our kids that a fire is hot but watch as they attempt to learn it themselves anyway.
We can tell them over and over, only to watch as they insist, that that isn't the way it really works Daddy.
But some lessons are so horrific, so graphic, that they just can't be ignored. That they have immediate impact and aren't forgotten anytime soon.
I don't have to explain to my son why someone was shot five times by a police officer. I don't have to explain why people are frustrated by our system of government.
You don't have to look very far to realize that the world we live in is very real. The people we live with, very real and not always in a good way.
And should you encounter a troll someday, smile and thank them for teaching everyone out there, what you could not.
