Why

People can be jealous of the famous because they despise their own lack of celebrity.  Fearing, that while a famous person will be remembered, perhaps even celebrated when they die by thousands of individuals.  They themselves will be lucky to be a footnote in the annuals of history if anyone even notices their passing besides family.

Romeo

One of my brothers was a bit of a player in his younger days.  One day he brought a girl home and my grandfather says, “long time no see”, to them.  Problem was this was this first time she’d ever been there, oops.  I won’t even get into the time 3 girls showed up at one of his baseball games to cheer him on.

My Inheritance

Back in the 1970’s when there was a lot of hijacking of airplanes occurring.  So in response to this the government decided to act, one of my neighbors, an IRS Agent was called upon to act as an Air Marshall to protect the planes.  Since he was gone so much, they asked my Dad to install a dead bolt on their door.  He was more than willing to help out, but perhaps not skilled enough.  For once installed, he realized that it was installed backwards, oops.  I have a similar skill set of my own when it comes to doing such tasks, so, thank you Dad.

It Stays With You

One day while I was driving the camp van, I was approaching a railroad bridge.  When I came around the bend there was a kitten in the road and I had a quick decision to make, hit the kitten or swerve and hit the bridge embankment.  Unfortunately the kitten didn’t make it.  I stopped the van and one of the little owners of the kitten, maybe 5, was looking at the kitten crying out, “They killed Pickle”.  That phase has stuck to me to this day, I felt like crap, even though the adult owner told me there was nothing I could have done, didn’t help much and I was living in a Cabin In The Woods at the time.

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What Was He Missing?

One of my siblings is an RN and for a while they worked for one of those services that helped parents when their pediatrician’s offices were closed.  One night they got a call from a distraught new father who couldn’t calm their newborn down.  It was the first time they’d been left alone and couldn’t for the life of them get the child to stop crying.  They were holding the child, changed its diaper, rocked it and yet the child continued to cry.  At a total loss as to what might be wrong and thinking maybe it might be medical, they called and got my sibling on the line.  So they listen to this overwhelmed father and what he had done for the child and had a simple piece of advice that changed everything.  When was the last time you feed the child?  That thought never occurred to him, the child was simply hungry.

I think my sibling should have followed up the next day with the mother to see if the father had told her about this, or was he hiding in shame and embarrassment over making the call for such an obvious problem?

Perhaps

People will pray hard for things to happen in their lives.  Of course sometimes the answer is no.  But when the answer is yes, it may still not be a good thing.  For you got what you wanted; but in the end it’ll turn out to be a negative, since it was meant to teach you a life lesson.  Something to think about and ponder in my Cabin In The Woods.

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Uni

When I was younger and working EMS I tended to let my hair grow.  I usually decided to get a haircut when a patient would say, “you ladies are doing a good job”, that was my que to go visit the barber.  You would think my mustache would have cut down on the confusion, but then…

Live Third Year

My blog has been live for three years now and still no one has really noticed it.  So in the existence of a Would Be Hermit, all is just fine.  I haven’t even amassed 500 visits yet, great!  But I do have over 1700 Posts, so I have nothing to say I guess.  So let’s hope for more of the same over the next year.