I knew Sunday exactly what this week's blog would be about, and exactly how I wanted to structure it... I just wanted to hold off until after the funeral Monday, to ensure that I would have a total understanding of what I was to write... It's now early Thursday morning, and I believe that I have prepared myself for this blog... Alright, enough rambling. Here goes:

As I lay awake in bed, I realize that I really don't want to write a blog this week... Maybe if it had been writen early in the week, but not now. Not after the loss of a mentor and friend. Yet I realize that I would be breaking my own goal of writing one blog a week only two weeks in. I also realize that I wouldn't be doing Deb any justice by simply tossing aside my thoughts and feelings about her. Afterall, she always encouraged me to do what I felt was right, and to never let anything stop you... It just wouldn't be right. So here I am, unsure of where this writing will lead...

This blog is the first in a series of blogs that I hope to start writing weekly. As a writer, I feel that I let my mind waste away at times, and I need to start using all the jumbled up thoughts in my head for a greater good. So, expect to see a deep and meaningful blog around this time every week. The topics will be whatever happens to be on my mind at the time I sit down to write, so expect the unexpected. I'm sooooo getting the highest bloggers badge. :-). Anyway, here we go:

Have you ever died? Clearly not, since you are sitting behind a computer screen, reading this blog. Yet, as I sit writing it, I am reminded that I died, and came back. I saw the light at the end of the tunnel. I stood above the world and saw what it would be like if I died. I got to see something that very few people get to while alive here on earth, and I have come away with a greater understanding of the effects we have on other people and just how many people might care, even when you find yourself alone in the world.

Life is too short. I know that this is something that we all know, but death has a way of sneaking up on you.