Happy Saturday LilyOnTheLam.Com Readers!
I hope you are having a terrific weekend! If you are in the Tampa Bay area, today and tomorrow (4/19 & 20, 2014) the 39th annual Mainsail Art Festival is being held at Vinoy Park. Definitely a fun event if you are an art lover … or an outdoor festival lover … or a "just want to hang out by the water" lover. Basically all your bases are covered here!
Being a social media fiend, every day on Twitter I am bombarded by inspirational messages (and also some non-inspirational ones too.) I saw this internet meme, laughed and knew I had to include it on LilyOnTheLam.
My readership is small but mighty! They are composed of friends, family members, friends/family of friends, some of my Twitter followers, people who came across me on a Google search and liked what they saw, Spam robots in the US and various foreign countries who misappropriate my text to drive readership to their sites (HATE YOU- so many cease and desist letters- ARGH!), Lily fans in general, Lily stalkers and a very tiny minority are people who don't wish me well but yet want to know what I am doing at all times. This teeny minority is the one I thought about when I saw the meme above.
Gratefully I have very few enemies in this life, but there are some people that for various reasons I no longer want to associate with … and I find that these are the ones who endlessly check my Twitter and LilyOnTheLam. To this very small group, I have to say "Really? You need to let go and move on. There are no answers for you here."
Life is too short to make yourself an emotional martyr, self-flagellating by reading this blog!
But I doubt these words of "Lily (cough) wisdom" will deter them from continuing to haunt LilyOnTheLam. So at least click on a few ads; so I can make some money, Haters!
In the grand scheme of things, it is a public blog - so no matter who you are- read away and increase my pages viewed count! And thank you for reading!
Meanwhile, I'll be spending time with open-minded people who give me gifts like this …
And "Since You Are Here …" allow me to climb on my soap box and preach to you all. I figure that for whatever reason you are here reading my blog today, I might as well throw in a global goodwill message!
I read a moving article about the young recipient of a heart transplant and the family of the woman who donated the heart. I remember last year, a young woman drove to visit her older sister in college. She swerved to avoid stopped traffic and hit a tree. She died and her passenger lived. Because I am an older sister, when I had heard about the accident I thought about how much anguish, guilt and sorrow I would have if my little sister died on the way to visit me. Accidents happen and this one was no one's fault, but that does not alleviate a family's suffering.
I was happy to read in the article that the family had donated the young woman's heart and a teenager received the heart - and so far (knock on wood) has not had any organ rejection complications.
I am listed as an organ donor on my drivers' license. With no offense intended to religions/cultures who are against desecrating a body in any way (including organ donation), I do believe that more people should be listed as organ donors.
A high school friend's sister had a life saving bone marrow transplant from a live donor. (More people are needed for the bone marrow registry, if you are interested - check here.)
I understand if people are hesitant to be live donors. I feel like I live continually under Murphy's Law, so if I donated a kidney I know I would be afraid that my remaining kidney would fail. I'm crazy and neurotic like that - luckily not everyone thinks like me when it comes to live donations.
But even for Crazy Me, I really have zero excuses about organ donation after death. Whether there is an afterlife, whether there is reincarnation or whether the end of this life is the end all/be all - I am not going to be needing my organs after I leave this Earth. (Or at least I hope I won't- I'm willing to take that chance!)
When I die (which hopefully is a long, long, long time from now) - carve me up and take every useable piece of me and save as many people as you can. Then incinerate the rest of me - ashes to ashes, dust to dust.
I read an interview with Deepak Chopra in the Tampa Tribune. The interviewer asked him how he wanted to be remembered after he died. Deepak Chopra answered: " … We're just a fragrance in the breeze. What do you remember of your great-grandparents? We're only good for a generation or two, then we fade into obscurity. So embrace the moment."
The phrase "we're just a fragrance in the breeze" really stuck with me long after reading the interview. Life, no matter how long you inhabit this Earth, is relatively short. I cannot think of a more meaningful way to seize some semblance of immortality then by extending the life of another through organ donation.
If you are not an organ donor, I would ask you to consider it. Like the Butterfly effect (check out my post on it!), our words and actions can carry on a life of their own for decades or even longer.
I don't know if at the end of my days I will have made any worthwhile contribution to humanity/society, but if even one of my organs could give a person more time on this Earth - that alone is a pretty amazing accomplishment. (In my humble opinion.)
Think it over.
Be well. Be happy. Be at peace with your world. This is what I strive for every day and I hope it is something you achieve with bountiful success.
Thanks again for reading!
I hope you are having a terrific weekend! If you are in the Tampa Bay area, today and tomorrow (4/19 & 20, 2014) the 39th annual Mainsail Art Festival is being held at Vinoy Park. Definitely a fun event if you are an art lover … or an outdoor festival lover … or a "just want to hang out by the water" lover. Basically all your bases are covered here!
Being a social media fiend, every day on Twitter I am bombarded by inspirational messages (and also some non-inspirational ones too.) I saw this internet meme, laughed and knew I had to include it on LilyOnTheLam.
My readership is small but mighty! They are composed of friends, family members, friends/family of friends, some of my Twitter followers, people who came across me on a Google search and liked what they saw, Spam robots in the US and various foreign countries who misappropriate my text to drive readership to their sites (HATE YOU- so many cease and desist letters- ARGH!), Lily fans in general, Lily stalkers and a very tiny minority are people who don't wish me well but yet want to know what I am doing at all times. This teeny minority is the one I thought about when I saw the meme above.
Gratefully I have very few enemies in this life, but there are some people that for various reasons I no longer want to associate with … and I find that these are the ones who endlessly check my Twitter and LilyOnTheLam. To this very small group, I have to say "Really? You need to let go and move on. There are no answers for you here."
Life is too short to make yourself an emotional martyr, self-flagellating by reading this blog!
But I doubt these words of "Lily (cough) wisdom" will deter them from continuing to haunt LilyOnTheLam. So at least click on a few ads; so I can make some money, Haters!
In the grand scheme of things, it is a public blog - so no matter who you are- read away and increase my pages viewed count! And thank you for reading!
Meanwhile, I'll be spending time with open-minded people who give me gifts like this …
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And "Since You Are Here …" allow me to climb on my soap box and preach to you all. I figure that for whatever reason you are here reading my blog today, I might as well throw in a global goodwill message!
I read a moving article about the young recipient of a heart transplant and the family of the woman who donated the heart. I remember last year, a young woman drove to visit her older sister in college. She swerved to avoid stopped traffic and hit a tree. She died and her passenger lived. Because I am an older sister, when I had heard about the accident I thought about how much anguish, guilt and sorrow I would have if my little sister died on the way to visit me. Accidents happen and this one was no one's fault, but that does not alleviate a family's suffering.
I was happy to read in the article that the family had donated the young woman's heart and a teenager received the heart - and so far (knock on wood) has not had any organ rejection complications.
I am listed as an organ donor on my drivers' license. With no offense intended to religions/cultures who are against desecrating a body in any way (including organ donation), I do believe that more people should be listed as organ donors.
A high school friend's sister had a life saving bone marrow transplant from a live donor. (More people are needed for the bone marrow registry, if you are interested - check here.)
I understand if people are hesitant to be live donors. I feel like I live continually under Murphy's Law, so if I donated a kidney I know I would be afraid that my remaining kidney would fail. I'm crazy and neurotic like that - luckily not everyone thinks like me when it comes to live donations.
But even for Crazy Me, I really have zero excuses about organ donation after death. Whether there is an afterlife, whether there is reincarnation or whether the end of this life is the end all/be all - I am not going to be needing my organs after I leave this Earth. (Or at least I hope I won't- I'm willing to take that chance!)
When I die (which hopefully is a long, long, long time from now) - carve me up and take every useable piece of me and save as many people as you can. Then incinerate the rest of me - ashes to ashes, dust to dust.
I read an interview with Deepak Chopra in the Tampa Tribune. The interviewer asked him how he wanted to be remembered after he died. Deepak Chopra answered: " … We're just a fragrance in the breeze. What do you remember of your great-grandparents? We're only good for a generation or two, then we fade into obscurity. So embrace the moment."
The phrase "we're just a fragrance in the breeze" really stuck with me long after reading the interview. Life, no matter how long you inhabit this Earth, is relatively short. I cannot think of a more meaningful way to seize some semblance of immortality then by extending the life of another through organ donation.
If you are not an organ donor, I would ask you to consider it. Like the Butterfly effect (check out my post on it!), our words and actions can carry on a life of their own for decades or even longer.
I don't know if at the end of my days I will have made any worthwhile contribution to humanity/society, but if even one of my organs could give a person more time on this Earth - that alone is a pretty amazing accomplishment. (In my humble opinion.)
Think it over.
Be well. Be happy. Be at peace with your world. This is what I strive for every day and I hope it is something you achieve with bountiful success.
Thanks again for reading!
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