Science, Religion, Politics and in the pursuit of truth – HappyPsychotic

Well its 1:49am and I’m wondering what the hell I’m doing awake? I’m not sure if it was the mix of a couple of beers and tea or whether I was trying to kid myself that I could fall asleep while listening to ” 30 seconds to Mars ” blasting at an ear bleeding volume through my ipod.

I guess I should introduce myself. I’m a new guest blogger here on Happy Psychotic, and will post from time to time, as and when I feel light shine upon marble head.

So, I guess the light has hit or maybe it’s just going to be just one of those 1am babble fests. Either way, just a heads up, your liable to find immense amounts of bad grammar, poor spelling and spicy language from me, I’m not here to write a Eulogy or something that is meant to win awards. I’m just here to empty the head and that will likely come out ass backwards.. but hey who cares right:)

For anyone interested, as Glenn, Chris and Barry have stated what they believe, I guess I should say when it comes to spirituality, God and tales of the spaghetti monster, my stance is: I do, I don’t and maybe. Let’s leave it at that, my posts will probably shed more light on it, if I even make it to a 2nd post.

I will say, I tend to embrace both the glass empty and the glass half full view of life, depending on what type of cereal I had for breakfast that day.

Anyways… enough of the shenanigans.

Sitting in bed, the thought ” Do our lives matter? ” kept spinning around in my head.

In this past week, we saw the death of another celebrity ” Corey Haim ” and while thousands of people die every week in the world of all manner of things, for some reason this one really stopped me in my tracks. I don’t know whether it was just a stupid case of 80’s nostalgia kicking in or I was just having a low moment that morning and the coffee wasn’t helping but it really made me think about the value of life, the value of relationships and how dispensable we all seem.

Here is this guy who for in the most part went from a nobody to a somebody over night in the 80’s. He amassed a large fortune and the attention of the masses only to blow it all as fast as he got it, through a series of choices which involved drugs.

He like many other child actors disappeared into the void, only to reappear in 2007 with the reality show ” The 2 Coreys ” which starred him, his long time buddy Corey Felman ( goonies, stand by me, the burbs ) and feldmans wife suzie who I must say had one hell of a rack on her

It ran for 2 seasons, and due to Haims apparent on and off drug abuse, it was cancelled. The interesting part is that while running the show, he posted an ad in the Hollywood trade publication announcing to the film industry he was back, ready to work and ready to make amends.

It appeared he truly wanted to get his act together and regain some sense of control over his career and life.

What followed was a number of crappy, embarrassing to watch B acting roles, while he lived with his mother in what was said to be low income apartments. Unfortunetely he died on the morning of March 10th, 2010 from what initially was reported to have been an overdose of over the counter prescription drugs that both him and his mum ( battling breast cancer ) were sharing.

Though news today states corey haims autopsy results showed that he had died of pulmonary lung congestion and overdosing on drugs was not an issue at all. His heart was enlarged and the lungs were filled up with water.

This once wealthy 80’s Canadian movie star died with only a few thousand dollars in cash in his bank, clothing and royalty rights.

Upon news of his death, twitter, facebook, new media and blogs displayed a storm of responses from people. Many  were sympathetic while others were along the lines of ” Who?, who is Corey Haim? ” or ” Who give a shit! ”

So coming back to the fact that thousands of people die every day, the only difference with Corey is that he was in the spotlight, and even then it was only for a short period of time otherwise he would have probably just taken a slot in the obituaries in the back of a paper ( a place most of us will find ourselves if someone gives a shit )

At the time of writing this, google news, papers, magazines and twitter are still filled with articles and blurbs about Corey Haim, yet give it a month or two and his memory will only remain strong in the minds of his family, a few close friends and the odd person who sees one of his flicks from time to time.

The Twilight Saga bullshit will clog up the airways and each of us will barely bat an eye or another thought at the life he lived. This year and years following will bring with it more tragic and sudden deaths of many celebs and other people.

So now, let’s Think of this now in terms of You and I.

We are told by many people, Your life matters. Yet in the words of Chad from Sonny with a chance. ” Does it really Sonny, does it really? ”

Sure if your lucky to be married, have kids, friends and still have family members alive when you pass on, maybe you will get a 125 x 125 death notification in the back of the paper, and if your really lucky someone will do a post in memory of you.

But does it really matter? Do you really matter? the weeks will pass, the months will turn into years and even those who remained will walk through deaths door, taking the memory of you with them ( come to think of it, old people suffer from memory loss, so good chance is, they wont even take that )

Are you and I dispensable? You bet your right nutsack we are!

Hold on a friggin minute Mclovin…  this is a bit of a downer!

Not really. As some cold hard reality, while shit cold when it hits your face, can also be helpful in making you aware of what you have around you right now.

Sure people can sit and talk shit about the BY and BY ( I’ll fly away oh glory ) and how we’ll all meet again for cuddles and hot chocolate but no one can be certain about that.

Instead it’s better to realize that now is all we have, now is all that we know that is certain. Sure it could be gone tommorow if some dick presses a red button, or the earth decides to collapse in on itself.

But at least, we can die knowing we lived. As William Wallace said to that hot chick ” Every man dies, but not every man lives! “  Yeaaahhhh….sounds good..whatever the hell that means ?

Now where did I put my damn ipod!