I've been here for over two years now. I have shared some things with you people that I have not shared with most anyone in my life. You all have been here for the birth of my second son. You have seen my ups and my downs. You have seen the same old shit. You've seen my love of things and my hatred of things.
To avoid forgetting anyone, I will just say that there are many that have had a hand in me seeing things differently and reinforcing my beliefs in things I already knew. Yet there are times, when I still don't understand myself. Even some of the things that I do. Or why I do them. You have been there for me when I'm down and drunk, and when I'm feeling sorry for myself for all the drinking that I do. Kinda like I am right now at 1am in the morning.
Life is a bittersweet symphony of the night, and I can't avoid that. No matter how I look at life, it is what it is. I have no expectations for anything at the end of this life. This life is all there is, and that is all that I can believe. It's bittersweet. Life is here for you now. Enjoy it will it is here. The reality of it is, however, that it will end, and when it does that is all there is.
"For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth and the flower thereof falleth away" -- 1 Peter 1:24
It's the second part that always gets me . . .
"But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you." -- 1 Peter 1:25
Seriously, I'm not one to really quote scripture. Anyone who has read this weblog for any amount of time (I wish you were still here Miss Maria) know my grievousness's with religion and God. But if someone can truly put faith in the above, I applaud them. They have found something beyond the void. Something outside of the darkness. A purpose.
I have one. It is my wife and sons. That is my purpose in life. Their happiness. Sometimes I am selfish though. I do things that are damaging and counter-productive to my relationships with them. Sometimes I really feel like an ass. An unfit father that will do more damage then good.
I know I always make jokes about my OCD. But I find that it gets more taxing with age to the point that I sometimes cannot do what should be done and not what it tells me needs to be done. Like when sitting on the edge of the bed with my wife and we are talking of intimate things, and here my eye catches a sippy cup and Dt. Mt. Dew bottle laying by the bed, that I have to pick up and throw away.
I can and should be able to find happiness, yet I don't. I mean I have a blast playing Wii with my son, or taking the two of them to the zoo, or loving my wife, making love to her, pleasing her and doing things for her. Yet when the moment of these activities end, the darkness enters. The bittersweet symphony that is life. What I feel is not what I want to feel. The seeping, dank, clammy hand of doubt. If God is not real, then what else is there to believe in? If the world will not end, as I was told in my lifetime, then what truly is truth? Why will I have to look my mother in eye as death approaches and know that in the back of her mind she is wondering what awaits her, because she was not to see death, before the coming of the Lord?
"Until I saw your blue eyes cry and I held your face in my hand, and I then fell down, yelling 'Make it go away', just make a smile come back and shine, just like it use to be, and then she whispered 'How can you do this to me?'" -- Blue October - Hate Me
Yeah, how am I going to look her in the eyes and tell her that her life was spent in vain? How am I gonna tell her?
I have no answers to life other than make it a purpose to make someone else's life happy. If you can do this, not matter what nihilist look on life that you have, you have had a purpose. Is it enough? It doesn't really matter. Someone had a happy life for something that you did, and really that should be enough.
"Hate me for all the things that I didn't do for you. Hate me in ways. Yeah ways hard to swallow. Hate me so you can finally see whats good for you." -- Blue October - Hate Me
Because in the end, it doesn't matter how much I drink . . . nothing changes.
May U Live 2 See The Dawn