Can't we have one bleepin' year where no one dies?

[cowboyec]

Without doubt, I know Elvis has known what has been in your heart all this time.

maybe the kindest thing anyone has ever said to me.
thank you.

 

[Rockport]

At the end of 2019 one of my favorite musical performers ever, Kim Shattuck of the Muffs, died. That SUCKED! So then in 2020 we had the worst year in history since the year 536 with the stinkin' pandemic and all kinds of awesome people, both famous and not famous, dying. It included my best friend from grade school. It included my guitar hero, Eddie van Halen. 2020 SUCKED!

So in 2021 we're owed a better year. We were supposed to have a year where the stinkin' pandemic got fixed and NO ONE died! But it has to start of the new year by killing off the woman of the hottest poster on my wall as a kid, Tanya Roberts. Enough!

I'm fed up. I'm starting my next prayer with, "Hey, you, you're being a real jerk, knock it off." That might not sound very articulate or poetic, but it's truthful. Enough of this.

I lost my Mother and brother within a year. It's just life. You mourn, accept and move on holding their memories close.

 

[Reverend Conehead]

I lost my Mother and brother within a year. It's just life. You mourn, accept and move on holding their memories close.

Sorry, man. Your mother and brother -- that's rough. I hope you find comfort. You're right; memories are precious.

 

[The Fonz]

I lost my Mother and brother within a year. It's just life. You mourn, accept and move on holding their memories close.

condolence to you that is not easy but as you said nothing you can do about it just move on life is very short

 

[InTheZone]

There are as many men as there are women who are equally guilty. People, men and women, are imperfect. Fingers are pointed both directions.

You'll never hear about it being equal though. Even a commercial that played on the radio for months would single out abused women and children, but never men. Looked them up and they had a history of antI-men rhetoric, so of course they'd play the men can't be victims card. We have too much of this in the media where they explicitly ignore or attack one side to their argument.

 

[DallasEast]

You'll never hear about it being equal though. Even a commercial that played on the radio for months would single out abused women and children, but never men. Looked them up and they had a history of antI-men rhetoric, so of course they'd play the men can't be victims card. We have too much of this in the media where they explicitly ignore or attack one side to their argument.

Media is male-dominated, just like practically every other industry. Men can be thick-headed. I should know. I am one lol.

In my opinion, it takes an enormous outcry about anything for men to finally act proactively towards change. Male victimization is no different.

An equal representation of abuse will eventually happen. I have no clue when. It will likely happen after I have turned to dust. My guess is that it will happen after media has diversified more evenly between men and women.

This is a relevant observation. Even so, ‘enough’ people ‘know’ abuse cuts but ways. Sure. Some people are either clueless or apathetic but most are aware how abuse harms others in the real world.

Media is lax in its responsibility to inform what the public comprehends already. We always have but like almost everything else we evolve slowly for fixing problems. It is a human flaw, especially inherit in men.

 

[catiii]

All of those people we grew up with are growing older and mortality becomes a real part of life. Compared to the last 10 years of my life, I feel as if I was sheltered from this and it decided to catch up.

The natural state of things with the passage of time are one thing but when they go the way that Robin Williams, Butch Trucks, Chester Bennington and Chris Cornell did it hits really hard.

When people take their own lives that appear to "have it made" to the rest of us. the shock and acceptance of that can derail us. I can still remember the feeling I had when Freddy Prinze took his own life. Here was a man at the top of life, he had arrived, and that wasn't enough.

Nothing so fragile as life and we, too often, think too many have better lives than we do. Peace of mind is vastly underrated.

Perhaps Toto put it in the most creative way, This song's lyrics hits home and it's obvious they wrote it for themselves, too.