I'm Still Here...And So Is Everybody Else --OR-- The Journey Isn't Quite Over, Yet

It’s been a while since I posted. A lot has happened in the past few weeks…although in hindsight, I really can’t think of any one big thing.  It’s all life just being life. 

Oh yeah! Life was supposed to end this past weekend. And yet, it didn’t – life still is rolling on. And really the way life in general seems to work? Things go on, people move on, events happen, and another supposed rapture has passed us by.  

I read an article about the once impending rapture.  My favorite quote in that article went something like this:  this particular person is (was?) a member of a group that was prepared for the 5/2/11 version of the Rapture, and his quote was:  “People usually ask us, ‘What are you going to do if you’re wrong?’ To which I always reply, ‘What are YOU going to do WHEN we’re RIGHT?’”

Well, he was wrong. I’m waiting for the follow up interview. 

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See, on the East Coast, the world was supposed to end, or at least begin to end, at 6PM Saturday. (On a side note, when the world began, didn’t it also already begin to end?) Anyway, at 6PM Saturday, I was sitting with my little guy. We just finished eating dinner at the Dogwood Fair (a local annual festival). He had a hot dog, I had a burger, and we split a funnel cake. We were sitting near the band shell, where a local band was playing Freebird. He told me, “This cake is the sweetest thing I’ve EVER eaten!” The world could have ended right at that moment, and you know what? I’d have been perfectly OK with that.  And YES, I intentionally used the word PERFECT.  :)

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But the world didn’t end. And it’s a good thing too, because I have things I want to get done. My bucket list. I have people I want to see and places I want to go. Life gets in the way of what I want to do, but that seems to be what life does, right? So adjust we must. So, here are some of the things on my bucket list:

• Take a hot air balloon ride
• See the Grand Canyon
• Streak, seated on a Hoverround, preferably on my 70^th birthday or later
• See the peak of Mt Rainier (I’m 0 for 2)
• Get the band back together
• Road trip cross country
• Own a 42-person Hot Tub
• See Chris Rock live
• Be a member of any one or several of the following TV audiences:  Maury, Judge Judy, Judge Mathis, The Price Is Right
• See my sister perform in a play in Los Angeles
• Teach my son to drive  (yes, I know)
• Get back to Acadia, Maine (preferably several times)
• Be surrounded by family and friends 

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Oh, and I do like the song “It’s The End OF The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)” by REM, but if the rapture does come in my lifetime, I REALLY REALLY don’t want to hear that song. Nor do I want to hear “1999” by Prince, and again, I like that song too. 

For me…I think I’d have to play “Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life” by Monty Python. 

 

 Or “Spanish Flea” by Herb Alpert.

Jussayin’…! 

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(...speaking of Prince...)

Dearly beloved,

We are gathered here today to get through this thing called "life."  Electric word, life; it means forever and that's a mighty long time.  But I'm here to tell you there's something else:  the afterworld - a world of never ending happiness.  You can always see the sun, day or night.

So when you call up that shrink in Beverly Hills; you know the one, Dr. Everything'll-Be-Alright; instead of asking him how much of your time is left, ask him how much of your mind, baby!  'Cause in this life, things are much harder than in the afterworld.  In this life, you're on your own!

And if the elevator tries to bring you down...go crazy!

- Prince
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HINT:  If you live life every day the best you can, then when the end comes, whether it's your end or the end of the world, you can ride off into the sunset. Period. 

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But of course, when I want to know the answer to life’s biggest questions, I look to the one man who had it all figured out:  George Carlin. Read the next post…it explains what the end will look like.   :)

(By the way…in looking up this on the Internet, I came across a site that referenced George Carlin: www.theworldsprohpecy.com. Only I couldn’t find out what it was. Reached a “page does not exist” error. Hmm.)