{"id":14698,"date":"2010-11-29T00:12:46","date_gmt":"2010-11-29T05:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shilohwalker.com\/website\/?p=14698"},"modified":"2010-11-29T00:35:05","modified_gmt":"2010-11-29T05:35:05","slug":"maybe-its-just-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shilohwalker.com\/website\/2010\/11\/maybe-its-just-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Maybe it&#8217;s just me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But when you&#8217;ve actually sat there and watched somebody <em>actually die<\/em>&#8230;as in held their hand, watched the life fade from their eyes, watched the monitor go still as their heartbeat stops some things don&#8217;t seem quite as important.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s things like politics.\u00a0 It&#8217;s like the differences all humans are going to have.\u00a0 It&#8217;s even things like their shallow and petty nastiness, because one thing you see that you hadn&#8217;t expected&#8230;?\u00a0 Their family.\u00a0 They suffer.\u00a0 They hadn&#8217;t necessarily done anything wrong, and they suffer.\u00a0 They grieve and they hurt and they mourn.<\/p>\n<p>And regardless&#8230;people screw up.\u00a0 We all do it.\u00a0 And we also all die.<\/p>\n<p>These are two things we all have in common-we will <em>all<\/em> make mistakes in this life&#8230;and we will <em>all<\/em> die.<\/p>\n<p>Yes&#8230;I&#8217;ve watched it.\u00a0 When I did the nursing home circuit and held the hands of people, it never once occurred to me to wonder&#8230; <em>what are their politics&#8230;what is their religion&#8230;.how did they vote&#8230;what do they think right now, what do they feel&#8230;.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>What mattered was that they were a person&#8230; who was dying&#8211;leaving this world, and passing to the next.<\/p>\n<p>What matters to me, about life, is that &#8211;<strong>life is precious.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yes.\u00a0 I&#8217;m a nurse. And yes, I&#8217;ve watched people suffer.\u00a0 Yes, I&#8217;ve seen more people die than some.<\/p>\n<p>But you know what?\u00a0 That shouldn&#8217;t matter.\u00a0 We&#8217;ve all lost people in life, right?\u00a0 That should tell you one simple thing-that person <strong>mattered<\/strong>&#8230;<em>to us<\/em>.\u00a0 Basic empathy should tell us this&#8230;<em>most people matter to somebody<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>So&#8230; don&#8217;t hand out some empty piece of shit-and I don&#8217;t care who it&#8217;s for&#8211;Obama, Palin, Beck (and I&#8217;m so disconnected, I don&#8217;t even know <em>who in the hell he (beck) is nor do I <strong>care<\/strong>) <\/em>even that idiot Ph*lps who runs that church in Kansas&#8230;.talking about striking people dead, or what-not.\u00a0 You do it, then be prepared for me to call it ugly-because that&#8217;s what it is.\u00a0 Wishing death on people is ugly.<\/p>\n<p>PERIOD.\u00a0 Yes, this is my opinion, but hey, it&#8217;s my blog, and I&#8217;m allowed to my opinion.<\/p>\n<p>Am I maybe oversensitive to this?<\/p>\n<p>Possibly.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll take into consideration that I&#8217;ve lost about four friends recently.\u00a0 Yes, four&#8230; I hadn&#8217;t gone into detail about the deaths of a few others online, because frankly, it depresses me.<\/p>\n<p>Since I consider life to be precious-let&#8217;s examine <em>why<\/em>&#8230;I&#8217;ve seen&#8230;oh, well, not examining the patients I&#8217;ve lost, because I can&#8217;t go into detail about that without breaking down-but the numbers <em>there<\/em>&#8230;it&#8217;s in the dozens just over a few years.\u00a0 We won&#8217;t take into consideration the fact that I did <em>pediatrics <\/em>for the latter half of my career before I quit to focus on writing. Although, hey&#8230; I did office work&#8211;pediatrics.\u00a0 We don&#8217;t tend to see a lot of deaths.<\/p>\n<p>So lets talk friends.\u00a0 Just in the past 18 months, I&#8217;ve buried about six friends-people I&#8217;ve known since I was in grade school, and it&#8217;s brutal.\u00a0 Two of the ladies were like grandmothers &#8230;and had been ever since mine died when I was grade school.\u00a0 About a month ago, I had to bury a guy who was like a grandfather, which, I guess, in the end, it was a blessing in disguise-I never had a real one that I can recall-not one I could on, by blood, at least&#8211;it&#8217;s nice to look back and connect memories to this guy.\u00a0 Two weeks after he died, his daughter died&#8230; and that almost gutted me.\u00a0 I can&#8217;t even begin to tell you what <em>that<\/em> is doing to me.<\/p>\n<p>And do you really think I <em>care<\/em> what her politics are?<\/p>\n<p>Do I know their politics?\u00a0 Nope.\u00a0 Do I care?\u00a0 Nope.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Well&#8230; they were people.<\/p>\n<p>In the <em>end<\/em>, that&#8217;s what matters.<\/p>\n<p>They were people.\u00a0 Naturally, <em>these<\/em> people mattered to me because I <em>knew<\/em> them.\u00a0 Loved them&#8230; I&#8217;m still grieving over them, and yes, I&#8217;m still mourning and probably more sensitive than I normally would be.<\/p>\n<p>But whether I was mourning or not?\u00a0 Flippant remarks over a person&#8217;s life or lack of have always pissed me off.\u00a0 Yeah.\u00a0 People are entitled to make them.\u00a0 And I&#8217;m entitled to be irritated about them.<\/p>\n<p>Even the people who run their mouths and annoy the <em>snot<\/em> out of me?<\/p>\n<p>You know what?<\/p>\n<p>They are still people.<\/p>\n<p>I won&#8217;t wish death on them.<\/p>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t <em>matter <\/em>I believe somebody is up there to deliver, not in my opinion.<\/p>\n<p>Why&#8230;?<\/p>\n<p>Because, in the end, if I&#8217;m wishing death&#8230;it doesn&#8217;t matter what I do or don&#8217;t believe&#8230;if I&#8217;m wishing death, I&#8217;m already doing something unspeakable, because the way I see it&#8230;wishing death on anybody <em>is<\/em> something unspeakable.<\/p>\n<p>Life is precious.<\/p>\n<p>Whether you like a person or not, that person probably <em>matters<\/em> to somebody.\u00a0 Even if it&#8217;s just their own family.\u00a0 If they disappeared&#8211;they&#8217;d leave a mark.\u00a0 A scar.\u00a0 Regardless of their politics, there would be wounds.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve watched people die.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve comforted those left behind.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve held their hands.\u00a0 More times than I care to count.\u00a0 Yes, I made that choice when I went into the medical field.\u00a0 But you know what? I did that because I consider life to be precious-and because I consider life to precious, I&#8217;ll say this&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t care <em>what the hell your politics, your rationale, your reason, your whatever the hell is&#8211;unless you&#8217;ve watched people die and comforted those left behind?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Do me a favor.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t give me some trite, empty, bull-shit excuse when you say crap-all shit about <strong>striking anybody dead<\/strong>.\u00a0 And fyi&#8230; this has <em>nothing to do with politics.<\/em> And everything to do with life.<\/p>\n<p>And before you try to tell me that you&#8217;re entitled to wish whatever in the hell you want&#8230; here&#8217;s an exchange-you watch somebody die.\u00a0 <strong><em>Sit there and watch it<\/em>, be there for those left behind<\/strong> and then come talk to me.<\/p>\n<p>After that?\u00a0 Maybe we can talk.<\/p>\n<p>And because I&#8217;m not in the mood to discuss this kind of ugliness?\u00a0 Comments closed.<\/p>\n<p>**Anybody wondering why I&#8217;m so combative&#8230; yes, this was inspired by an offhand comment made-perhaps it was casual, perhaps it wasn&#8217;t meant to be &#8220;i wish this person was dead&#8230;&#8221; but I&#8217;ve seen too <em>many <\/em>people die, and I&#8217;ve had too much death in my life lately to take that kind of nastiness lightly-I don&#8217;t care who it&#8217;s regarding-it doesn&#8217;t matter if I <em>like<\/em> the person or not.\u00a0 Hell, I don&#8217;t even care if I <em>know <\/em>the person or not.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.shilohwalker.com\/website\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/cooltext482820484.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14590 alignnone\" title=\"cooltext482820484\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.shilohwalker.com\/website\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/cooltext482820484.png?resize=234%2C165\" alt=\"\" width=\"234\" height=\"165\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But when you&#8217;ve actually sat there and watched somebody actually die&#8230;as in held their hand, watched the life fade from their eyes, watched the monitor<a href=\"https:\/\/www.shilohwalker.com\/website\/2010\/11\/maybe-its-just-me\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Maybe it&#8217;s just me&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14590,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10161045129738658_54762468447":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_bluesky_dont_syndicate":"","_bluesky_syndication_accounts":"","_bluesky_syndication_text":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ponderings"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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