Thinking Out Loud.

I made a little post here about people I could do without. A lot of that is based upon the barrage of television commercials and television infomercials I see on a daily basis. It's funny how you can see the same commercials over and over again. You end up wanting to gouge your eyes out. You think to yourself, "Who thinks this commercial is funny anway?" And then, you visit YouTube and you notice that the very commercial that gives you nausea has been posted by someone on the site. Usually with the description "This is the hilarious new commercial from..." I can only shake my head. In other areas of my mind, there is a line from the U2 song "Get On Your Boots" where Bono says "I don't wanna talk about wars between nations....not right now." I think I understand what he means by that. Some people are so focused upon talking about all of the bad things in this world right now. There is no place for humor in most of these discussions that are going on. It gets old quickly arguing about who is right and who is wrong. Humor is my only defense for all the things that are thrown at me. Humor mixed with a little sarcasm is the only thing that has been keeping me going lately. I had a woman tell me not too long ago about how much she hated her job. How she complained about it on a daily basis. She said that she felt guilty about that, because she knew there were so many people out there who don't have jobs right now. This past Sunday, the 12 year-old daughter of my cousin Greg died. She had been battling a brain tumor. Her obituary was posted in the paper yesterday. Here is an excerpt from it: "Jenna loved doing hair, writing stories, playing soccer and climbing trees. Jenna had a special way with small children and babies and they all loved her..." She was a 12 year-old girl who loved doing all the things that your average 12 year-old kid loves to do. 12 years-old is way too young to be gone from this Earth.