THE NEGATIVE REACTION

THE MEANING OF LIFE

Funny, it FINALLY rained today. How fitting. What a day I had yesterday. My gif's brother's son appendix burst and he was taken to the hospital. Apparently it burst a while ago and by the time they got to the hospital, there were infections all over his colon. The doctor said they will probably have to remove most of his colon to avoid the infection spreading. He's only 19 - terrible, just terrible.

Other than that - work has been unbearable and slow. The heat has made people very tense. Although my boss keeps our office at a cool 70 degrees all day long.

So I'm reading a book entitled "The Class" by Eric Segal. The book details five guys who end up at harvard and their various experiences and where they end up after their education. After reading some it - I came to the conclusion that the meaning of life is the relationships we make our entire life. the cultivation and keeping up of those relationships makes us who we are. All of our lives this is the pattern. We go to junior high and high school, we play sports, we have our "clicks" and people we hang out with. Then after making all of these important relationships - everybody goes off to college. People move away, go off to different parts of the country to pursue their academic dreams and look forward to joining "the real world" soon after. Fast forward 5 maybe 6 years of college. After culiminating another 4-7 years of relationships, everybody moves on. People graduate, start families, join the workforce, have kids, move to different areas of the country for work or grad school. So what are we left with after all of these life long experiences? Our friends. The people that have stay together through all these changes.

Once your done with college, you just don't make friends as often as you used to do. Add in the mix that the midwest is VERY closed and people run in VERY tight knit circles - it's hard to meet new people. You work, you play, you go home. What else is there? When you die - you take nothing with you, but you leave all those memories, the people that you have touched during your life are there to make sure your not forgotten. Dante, in his Divine Comedy related that those souls lost in Purgatory can only move on to Paradiso only after people have prayed for them. Without your friends, this would not be possible - theoritically speaking. So it is possible that EVERYBODY will leave their mark during their life - but it's those friends that make it all possible.


Anyways, it was a short moment of clarity that needed to be shared. . .


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