Committee-inside-my-head will you
ever JUST SHUT UP! You are screeching at me inside-my-head .. “Who on this green earth even cares!”
Sigh!
I have to assume that IF you are reading and if you are following along
here some (one only?) of you may and do care ..
Well .. I THINK THAT MAYBE .. but I am not close to being 100% positive ..
that I AM GOING TO RETURN TO INDIA !
In the past I have had strong and extremely
clear signals as to this decision .. my last trip was started by a STRONG
FEELING OF .. DO IT NOW !
Father Abello in Calcutta .. Jesuit
Priest that he is .. ALWAYS stresses the word and the concept of ‘discernment’
.
So I sit trying to ‘discern’ whether the
following story amounts to a ‘call to return to India’ ..
‘Zilla I think maybe .. after your incident
earlier this year tripping over your suitcase leaving your hotel room .. you
may relate ..
OK
.. does this story amount to a ‘calling’ ?
You decide.
A special friend of a friend .. and I do
not even know her name or her age but I am pretty sure she was not a ‘spring
chicken’ .. returned home from someplace just within the past week-or-two .. parked her auto in her garage ..
and tripped and fell ..
She was hurt so badly from this
fall in her garage that due to pain and
physical damage to her shoulder she could not get up and get into her home ..
instead she gathered some stuff together to keep her warm and leaned up against
her garage wall .. I can only imagine the mental situation she must have been
in!
Luckily within several hours .. someone came
looking for her and found her .. got her to a local emergency room where she
under went surgery.
And?
This poor lady .. who had just been
coming home from somewhere .. you know .. just doing-her-life .. passed
away. She died! As in
dead! .. shortly thereafter!
She acquired a ‘hospital based staph
infection’ which she did-not-have prior to falling and going to the 'ER' and that-was-that! Her life-show ended!
Gee ‘Zilla you-lucked-out! You at least are still alive-and-kicking!
So how-on-earth is this story ‘a call to
return to India’?
It is NOT ‘Per Se’ a call to DO anything
..
EXCEPT to ponder how thin the thread of
life is that I am hanging onto at age 76 years .. by-the-way all living beings are hanging
onto or suspended by their own individual thin-threads-of-life!
As if my recent adventure with Benign Positional Vertigo last 12/12/12 was not enough of a 'wake-up-call'!
Patti was out day-before-yesterday and now is
recovering from an automobile accident that she was involved in! She was not hurt as severely as the lady in
the above story was .. but she is stiff-sore-and-aching and did not want
nor need the grief of having her car ‘totaled’!
Luckily for Patti her-new-life-acquaintance
has auto insurance (this alone is a blessing!) with the same automobile
insurance company and that driver also was not injured to the point of
requiring emergency room care.
Considering all of the above .. I have formally
reserved a room at the Kowloon YMCA in Hong Kong, China, arriving January 29th
departing February 2nd.
Now I will explore ‘getting-there’ ..
making the requisite airline reservations etc but the proverbial ball-is-rolling!
WILL IT ACTUALLY HAPPEN? Let’s all of us stay-tuned! With my personal history
odds-are-it-will-happen .. UNLESS (and you and I can fill-in-the-blank line about what
could happen to stop me! .. like get up
from here and in going to the kitchen trip-and-fall and? ..)
On a much-more-positive note!
Was it Admiral Halsey who said .. "Damn the torpedoes!"
Last night the Detroit Pistons
professional basketball team beat the defending Champion Miami Heat 109 – 99
out at the Palace of Auburn Hills, Michigan, and I was there in attendance with
a friend of many years rooting like crazy! I can and I am just-doing-it! Just doing-life!
Patti will get another auto that is easier for her to get
into and get out of!
Trucker Tom 48067 and I are going to
have breakfast uptown at Niki’s Restaurant in about-an-hour!
The final weekend of the NFL season is tomorrow with some great games to watch .. and the PLAYOFFS begin week after this!
IF something negative does happen to me .. I pray that I will
take-it-with-a-smile KNOWING HOW RICHLY I HAVE BEEN BLESSED IN THIS LIFETIME!
For now .. over-and-out from Bobba Caps and ALL of the Bobbsey!
“What’s that committee-in-my-head?” .. “You
are correct! I am on-a-roll
and having fun!”
"Life's journey is not to arrive safely at the grave in a well-preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting 'Holy Shit!' What a ride!"
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