FknBucky

It’s almost Christmas.  I’m going to stay home and relax because I’ve been traveling for the last few months and I’m tired.  It’s my right to do so.   Not to mention the airlines are charging triple what it normally cost to fly home. I have my dog and some great friends to spend the holiday with so please don’t waste your time feeling sorry for me.

Holiday’s are great for reflection.  It is the right time to look at your life and remember what is truly important.  How many lives did you change for the better this last year??  How many random people did you help out because it is the right thing to do??  If your answer is zero then you have an entire lifetime to make a change.  Life isn’t about you.  It is about making people feel better about themselves because you took the time to care about them.

I was volunteering at the Children’s Hospital one night and watched a woman weep while I was putting my chair together out of my car.  I watched dozens of people ignore her like she wasn’t even there.  I couldn’t understand how so many people could continue their day to day business watching someone who was obviously in an incredible amount of pain.  It broke my heart to see the cruelty of mankind in this way.  Have we lost ourselves so badly that when a stranger is dying inside we choose to ignore it because it is easier than helping??

I got my wheelchair together and rolled over to this woman.  I’m no saint by any means.  Actually I’m known for being an asshole which I’m okay with.  I’m not heartless, I just have a way of telling people to piss off when I feel like it needs to be said.  Sometimes people are pricks and I’m completely fine with saying so.  Wait what was I talking about??

Okay so this lady is crying like crazy and I rolled up to her and asked if she needed a hug.  She grabbed me like a starving fat person would a snicker bar.  Tight.  I let her cry on my shoulder for about ten minutes and said nothing except “Please know people care.”  It doesn’t take much to change the life of someone and you should not waste opportunities to do so.

I will never see this woman again.  I don’t know her name and I don’t know what was causing her so much pain.  I won’t get an award and unless I put it in this blog no one would ever know about it.  Wait for it… I don’t care.   I only care that I was able to hold her and let her know that humanity still exists.  How many of us would love a stranger to care about our problems??  Everyone would.

Now that being said how many times have you taken a few minutes of your super busy schedule to help a stranger.  My point exactly.  We all want the rest of the world to give a fuck about us, but no one wants to give a fuck about the stranger.  Think hard now, we have to all change our attitude and MAKE time to help others.  This way we all get the benefits.

Make the time to care.  I’m not better than anyone else.  I need to practice what I write about and putting this down in words means I will have to do it.  Everyone has a problem.  Everyone needs a hug.  Everyone needs someone to say “I fucking care”, and it will go a long way.  One the person will feel better, and you will feel like you’ve done something important.  If we all work at this to make the world a better place just imagine the way our children will treat each other.  It starts with you.

Merry Christmas!!

Fknbucky