Tim Russert and a Random Thought
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First of all AM, please forgive me for not posting entries over the past few days, but we do very much appreciate you returning each day. It's been truly great.
I like many was taken by surprise by the death of Tim Russert, I did think he was probably the most fair minded and even handed newsman out there. He was old school. He was well respected and Meet The Press was always a show that Monday morning talk radio gave us sound bites and quotes from. Russert was a cool guy. He wrote a great book and tribute to his dad titled "Big Russ & Me"..He loved his old man and he was a great proponent of honoring our history and our vets.
All that said and after the initial shock of Russert's passing? I thought to myself "Wow, 58 years old" folks that is a young man in his prime by today's standards. I had read that he had had a stress test just weeks before and passed, that he battled and monitored his diabetes, that he was on a tread mill the very morning of the day he passed. What a sad story, but still yet he made some grand accomplishments without a doubt.
So being a news junkie I was stunned like all of America,and then I started wondering about my own mortality. I drink, I smoke, I will choose a cheeseburger over a salad anytime. I started thinking also about where I have gone wrong in my life. How can I be a better Dad, a better husband, a better son,a better grandson, a better uncle, a better neighbor, a better friend, a better co-worker, on and on. I discovered a lot of faults in myself and things I could do much better. We all know it and we all say it from time to time, but "life is truly short".
I am twenty years away from 58, but every once in awhile we gotta "check ourselves" and ask questions of ourselves. We roll through this life at times with reckless abandon and think we are going to live forever. There are things we will never be able to make right, but there are many more things that we can make better. We all have a lot of work to do, but I promise you that none of us will ever be perfect. We just do the best that we can. It's not in human nature to achieve "perfection" We cannot comprehend perfection. We always fall short, but it's a beautiful ride. Life truly is a beautiful thing. I try and remember it with every breath.
Sorry for waxing sappy America Matters....but that's how I feel tonight. Short and Sweet but Real..................... God Bless all of you.
Be back Friday night...
Thx LT............ 
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