These days we hear about deaths everyday. For example, there’s a daily ticker scrolling on our television newscable shows of how many have died from covid. We seemingly cannot escape the concept of death. Maybe that is partly why people appear so jumpy these days. I know, I myself am startled by people at random times. That could just be feeling overworked and zoning out a bit.
With all that is going on, it is no wonder that I had an eerie day this past week when death kept popping into my mind and consciousness.
I woke up and got myself ready just like any other day. As I walked to work, all of a sudden, I started thinking of a past friend who just suddenly died. His heart just stopped. He was young. That death in that particular year (4 years ago) just so happened to be one of several I had experience that year. Anyway. After his death popped into my head startling me, I received a text from a friend on a piece he wrote about watching friends die during the height of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. This article hit me hard on the heels of my random remembrance of a friend who had gone too soon. Then I arrive to work and receive news that a colleague of mine on special program had been murdered the night before.
Yikes. I felt like a tidal wave had hit me. They say things come in three. I believe that. However, I don’t know why I suffered through this tidal wave. It seems too trite to say it was meant to put me on alert as to how short life is. That I need to make key decisions for happiness and connections. Or maybe its just a reflection of times we live in with so much death around us.
Categories: Culture, current events, death, mental health, Psychology, society
psychologistmimi 
When The Startle Response Becomes
Exaggerated It’s A Potential Sign of
An Eventual Decline Toward
“General Adaptation
Syndrome” As Stress
Becomes Cumulative
As Stress Hormones
Steadily Slowly Destroy
All Bodily Systems As Such
Like Acid That Builds Up in
The Blood Stream Over Years
And Perhaps Even Decades too…
Re-Creation Necessary As Pandemics
Make Respite So Much More Difficult
In Spite of All the New DarK Challenges
That Seem to Never End
And the Health Care
System is Most
Stressed
The Pit of the
Fire of Unrelenting Stress…
Yet True A Restaurant Without
Enough Employees Will Come in
Somewhere in the Top 10 too as
Managers Work continually 70 to 80
Hour Weeks to Rise Above the Surface
Of The Ocean As Employees No Longer
Show Up So Hard to Find All that’s Left
Is For the Top to Do the Bottom As Well
To Keep the Whole Ship of Business
From Sinking Now True Meanwhile
The Mexican Roofers Across the
Street At Least One Named
‘Jesus’ Are Listening Now
To The Mexican AM
Radio Station Coming
In A Van From Texas
That Looks Very Much
Like the Ones From the
Late 70’s With That Used
Van Vinyl Smell Yards From
The Van Never the Less These
Folks Ain’t Sitting Still Behind A
Desk They Are Dancing to A Forage
Of A Job That Continually Moves Differently
Only Real Danger Is Not Using A Safety Harness
On A Roof Yet Birds Rarely Fall From the Sky and
Monkeys Rarely From Trees Until They Fall Ill and
Die As They LiVE iN Animal Homeostasis Balancing
As They Live Life Foraging As Continual Re-Creation
in Balance Where Fight or Flight is Only Used for Real
Life or Death
Situations
In Life…
Oh Yeah, When
Everything Starts
Reminded Ya About
Death That is Another
Sign of General Adaptation
Syndrome too Just another
Warning Sign From Our Subconscious
Mind As Evolved to Get Away And Start Living now
Or Face the
Karma
of Waves
That Simply
Rise and or Fall
As Tides Go in And Out
Thing is They Keep Moving
Never Trapped Sitting Still Behind
Screams of Screens That Never SHUT-UP…
Anyway i Was pretty close to Your Age when
i Started Experiencing these Symptoms out
of 11 Years of Chronic to the Last 2 Years
of Acute Continuous Work Related Stress
About A Year After That Everything
About Life Underneath my
Skin Went
Broke…
Yet of Course on
The Autism Spectrum
With Bi-Polar Disorder
Non-Specified i Was Just
An Early Warning System
As Such Just Another Canary
In A Coal Mine You May Be Much
More Naturally Resilient than me
Then As i Had PRACTICALLY NO
KNOWLEDGE OF INTUITION OF
WHAT IT EVEN MEANS TO BE HUMAN
WITHIN…
A Cat Will Scratch
Now And Bite when
IT gets overstimulated
By Environmental Stress…
i Had No Teeth or Claws then…
i Grew Some And Now Everything Is Alright Balancing…
Yet the Practice Never Ends for Animal Homeostasis…
Yeah, i Remember Riding Down the Road then As the
‘DEAD END SIGN’ TOOK A WHOLE NEW MEANING…
For It’s True There is Positive And Negative Synchronicity too…
All For Signs
to Marry The
Night And Merry The Day..:)
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I am so sorry to hear about all of your losses. I think the concept of death can hit us at any time and we start to realize that the transient nature of life really is very fragile. Sending strength and hugs.
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