Oh wow...

  Wow.....some days life can be so damn humbling! And today just happens to be one of them. I always try to find the positive in any and every day...it's who I am!  I much prefer a glass that's 1/2 full!  But there are some days that I just get up on the wrong side of the bed and find myself feeling irritated or frustrated. Today kinda started out being one of those days.  Life was just rubbing me the wrong damn way!
   And then..BAM..it happened!  Life slapped me right upside the head, hard!  A friend of mine lost his 19 year old son this weekend, he died in a car accident. And as I was sitting here being irritated at the world...my phone rang and it was him.  I froze...what will I say? What do you say?  Is there anything comforting or even semi intelligent that I can muster up to say that would offer him any sense of comfort?  Oh...no!  I answered the phone and heard my friend, a  man that is usually so full of life and laughter on the other end....empty and sad. It was a short and humbling conversation. And it left me here to ponder life and it's consequences it sometimes so unfairly throws people. One of those things that leaves you wondering why? I know that my friend and his wife will never ever be the same.  They will never have the life they had the moment before this horrible accident occured.  They will never have just 1 more minute with their son.  They will never get the opportunity to hear his voice again, or hug his neck.  It's gone..all gone forever!
  And in that very moment I stopped and realized just how overwhelming full my glass is! I hope to never have to face the mountain these parents are so courageously attempting to climb right now. My heart hurts for this mother who lost her son, the pain must be crippling her soul! And the pain must be devastating for this father who just can't fix it this time. What a humbling moment for the rest of us who think we've had a bad day! Wow...is all that I can keep thinking....