Curiosity Killed the Cat

Hello Everyone,
Well for those of you who don't know I work 10 hours a day in a very lonely, hot, and tiring place. Yes, i work in a factory in Belleville. Yes the days suck and watching my summer just fade away makes me shed a tear every once in a while [ha ha]. But no in all seriousness the money is nice and really helps heal the pain. But most importantly whenever i have kids [knock on wood not for a long time] i will be able to tell them this story every time they complain. Well, by now I'm sure you are all curious as to why my title of this blog is "Curiosity Killed the Cat." Allow me to explain.

As stated before, i work long and lonely days in a factory. So as a result all i do all day besides telling myself to stay in school, is think. I think ALOT while i am at work. No not because the work is hard, but i spend alot of my time thinking about my life, my family, my friends, and so on. Because i think so much through the course of my day i in turn cause myself to start to question alot of things. Now i apologize because i said in my first blog that these blogs weren't going to be about mourning the loss of an amazing aunt because she wouldn't have wanted that. But rather out of remembrance and joy. When i stand by my lonely station on the assembly line i have recently been thinking alot about what Wanda is doing up in Heaven. Maybe she is resting her ears from listen to my mom tell stories [ sorry mom =) ] or maybe she is catching up with her grandmas or possibly playing fetch with regale [idk if that's how you spell that dogs name ha sorry.]

When i stop and think about heaven i start questioning things like, what is it like, will it be like earth is now, or will i see streets of gold and God sitting on the highest cloud? So many questions and hardly no answers. Yes the bible tells us of heaven and very discreet descriptions of heaven but no one description that really explains it all. And when i ponder about this i think well they say heaven is paradise. Well how can we define paradise? Because for a city man paradise could be having all the luxury things in life, or for a country man paradise could be open fields, timber , deer , etc. Well in Tom Benhoffs case he is already in paradise with his house ;). Well i guess we will all know what "our" paradise is when it is our time to be reunited with God and lost loved ones.

With all this talk about death and heaven it really can cause a very depressing attitude and also that of a scared or cautious attitude. In the sense of maybe realizing you haven't been the best person or nicest person or kindest for that matter. In other words you think to your self maybe you just haven't really been a very good follower of God. Now i'm no religious scholar nor am i some perfect christian. Simply what i am saying is that maybe after the death of someone we are granted the gift of realizing maybe we could be just a little better of a person. Not saying go become a nun or priest or attend church all the time, but just maybe coming to acknowledge the fact we can be a little nicer, kinder, generous, etc everyday to improve the lives of those around us.

So as i stated i do alot of thinking, and all this is just a slight majority of stuff i think of. I think about good old days of soccer, high school, family vacations etc. I'm glad i do alot of thinking because that way i never forget or let anything slip away from me that east. I just look at it as we are all so fortunate to be able to walk this planet everyday and to enjoy life because we will never know when that day for us to return home will come. So if you take anything away from this blog take the satisfaction of reminding yourself how lucky you really are and be thankful for everything you have because tomorrow is a new day and everything can change in a moments notice.

I hope i didn't offend anyone with my religious blog, if i did i am sorry i am just trying to express what is on my mind.

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Thank You,
And
Goodnight!

Travis Liening