The World is Not Going to End

(We're just all going to have to learn to cope). I remember clearly the first time I felt scared because something really bad had happened in my life. My 16 year old cousin had died in a car crash. He had accidentally run into a house with his friends in the family car. But when he turned to his friends to ask them if they were all right he turned his head to ask them. Unfortunately, his neck was already broken and turning his head killed him.

There are always going to be impossible things to deal with in life that you don't expect. I was 8 years old when the above event took place and I remember how broken my world felt from my cousin dying. For me, the 1950s were incredibly boring, but, on the other hand they were also incredibly safe for me as well. I was allowed to ride my bicycle miles away from home starting at age 5 because it was safe as long as I didn't ride it in between traffic or out in front of a car or something. So, I could take off and go with my friends sometimes for hours and no one really knew where I was except that I was with a friend or friends.

As I grew older and more events (like nearly dying from childhood epilepsy from age 10 to 15) life took on a more terrifying note for years at a time. But by age 16 my life had settled down again as I grew out of it and became 6 foot 4 inches tall and bought a car (a 1956 Ford Stationwagon) with money I made by working after High School.

I guess the point I'm trying to make is that often the world (or your world ends) but your body doesn't die and you wonder why you are still alive? But, the world doesn't end. You might end living in this body or wars may happen and millions of people may die but the world doesn't end even if thousands or millions beg every day that it does. The world is not going to end, we are all just going to have to find a way to cope with all the changes and all the many different people and roles we will have to play along the way maybe even past age 100.