I made it to the family home in Bay View, MI where all kinds of mixed feelings come flooding back. It’s good to get away from the daily grind to a place I have so much respect for with so much family history, but there’s lots of heaviness attached to this place from what’s happened to our family in the last couple of years. I hope it’ll lighten up before I have to head home. I just miss my dad and grandpa soooooo damn much it hurts and it’s hard to think that this might be my grandma’s last time visiting this place that’s been in her family all her life. I hope I get to spend some quality time with just her and I — she’s an amazing woman, even after the stroke, that’s for sure. Everything has changed and it all seems to be negative. Will things ever look up? Most of the time I’m not convinced — life seems to just keep getting harder and plans almost always seem to change for the worse. This whole trip definitely fits into the good but hard category. I am so grateful for having such an amazing family although it makes the losses even more devastating.
Why do certain things in life have to be so damn hard for some of us and other people seem to have it so easy and get everything they want out of life? I’m definitely questioning my belief in karma and any kind of positive higher power. If there was some positive force out there, being a good, productive member of society and treating other people with respect and love should make our lives better, but that’s just not the case. Nice guys really do finish last.
Sorry for being so negative, but the timing of the last couple years has really sucked and the timing of this month hasn’t been ideal at all. I still get the fleeting idea that I need to run away and start a totally different life somewhere totally different to get away from all the sadness and hurt and disappointment in my life and in the lives of the people I care about. What’s the point of the human condition? If it’s the pain and suffering we go through, is it really worth it?
Blog Post #1
Okay, well, officially this is my very first blog entry ever (yay!) and for some reason I just decided to use the 1st picture of me I came across on my computer for it. It represents a look I wanna start bringing back — who’s comin’ with me?!
I’ve seen several webinars lately that talked about search-engine optimization (SEO) and the majority of them stressed the importance of consistent blogging using consistent key words. The main quote a guy used was something like this: “Stop not blogging, people!!” So I guess he’s saying that those of us who don’t blog suck and will never amount to anything. I’m not sure I agree with that, but I’ve decided to take this advice and start writing about things that are interesting to me. I haven’t decided what the themes of these blogs will be (i.e. real estate, Bellingham nightlife, my band SpaceBand, astronomy, bass guitar, my dad Tom Hunter’s music, web design, sky diving, shark attacks, etc…) so any suggestions would be much appreciated — I guess we’ll have to see how it evolves. There’s a lot I know about pretty random stuff so if there’s anything you’d like answers to and haven’t been able to track down the right info, feel free to let me know and I’ll see what I can do (time & knowledge permitting, of course).
Until next time & as Bill & Ted would say: “Be excellent to each other.”
- Aeden
This is my first attempt at being a blogger -- I'm not so good at reading or writing and still have to sound out the big words, but hopefully I can find some interesting things to talk about. Let me know if you have any suggestions for topics and I'll see what I can do.
