DEAD RECKONING

Well there are definitely times when it is important to call a corpse, a corpse. To be willing to look at some dead cadaver of an idea or other item and accept it is beyond resuscitation.

That can really be tough when you are talking about something where you honestly spent so poor a lot of effort into something. And so you have grown attached to the whatever.

You just keep telling yourself you can still breathe life into the thing if you just try. The mind can get stupid that way at times.

And I even find myself being guilty of such things. Always feel dumb too, but do it anyway. Isn't that wonderful?

See knowing the truth and being willing to accept it is not the same thing. I wish it was otherwise.

But that isn't reality. And even though reality sucks at it is still what we get stuck dealing with just the same.

My approach to this is naturally to focus on being hopefully, but not ignoring the vital signs. Or should I say the lack of them.

Honestly, it is so important to know the difference. A dead tremor is not the same as exhaling. And a thump is not the same as a heartbeat.

Wish it was the option, but sometimes we are just so better off if we don't pretend on that subject.

Only things get so muddled in our thinking. We just can't help ourselves. There are times when life will get stupid and we just are infected by it all.

That doesn't mean we can't change. Just that we might not want to. Sometimes that can be so hard to balance.

Still the sane person gives it the best shot. Which naturally doesn't quite mean success. Just that we are willing try.

This doesn't necessarily mean it works out though. In any event, we plod along in the shear and feeble delusion that life will always be perfect.

Does it mean it is perfect? Not even close. Does it mean it will ever become perfect? Nope, not that either.

But we love to think that way. And even if some ideal has a title deed to a grave stapled to its face, we are going to hope for a miracle cure.