Please…

There is a frenzy.

This frenzy has become dangerous.

It is time to step away from the congratulatory campfire and return home to families and loved ones.

It is time to stop patting each other on the back, hooting and hollering.

It is time to set aside the big moment and live in the small, every day, mundane minutiae that is life.

Because life is full of routine that does not make front page news, however it is still valuable, or it wouldn’t exist.

Go back to your homes.  Go back to your loved ones.  Go back to friends.  Go back to living life.

Look your family in the eyes.  Individually look them in the eyes, talk to them, tell them what they mean to you, let them hold onto a memory that will live until their dying breath.

Kiss your children regardless of their age.  Kiss and hold them, so they will always remember the love of their parent.  Tell them to their face, look them in the eye and tell them what they mean to you, unashamed, unfiltered, pure, uncompromising, and with greater honesty than you thought you had or knew existed, tell them what they mean to you.  Never let go, yourself, of what it means to you to create a memory with your child that will live in yours and their well of truth that cannot be touched, perverted, changed, or sensationalized.

Hold your children as if your very breath depends upon it.  Hug your family members as if there may not be another chance to let them know or create the memory that becomes the core of their being.

Families are not always related by blood.  Some families are created do not leave these families out.  It is important to belong.

It is a part of what makes us human, belonging to one another.  To matter.

Please go back.

Please go back, hold on to the big moments in life, hold it within your well of truth, measure it, let it live there.

But, please go back to everyday life – and live it.

I will remind you I never had a choice in living the life in am in currently.

If I had a choice it would end immediately.

I miss and want my Tuesday and Thursday back.  This was a wrong.  They never should have been taken.  Because the circumstances of my life were available to persons who were not great thinkers.  It is a terrible, terribleness to use animals as a way of manipulation.

I have not had a choice.

People deserve the right to choose.