The Voice of Treason

April is the cruelest month….

Writing by treason on Thursday, 21 of April , 2005 at 11:04 pm

The older I get, the more I realize I dislike spring. I wait all winter for green to appear, and for that feeling of renewal and hope to return. It’s life starting all over again. Little buds appear on trees and shrubs, birds and bugs soon follow. That happy feeling, knowing that the days are longer and staying lighter later. Then something terrible happens. And then the bad news keeps coming. What starts out as annoyance and inconvenience soon turns to disaster and catastrophe. It happens every spring. More and more you find yourself comparing tragedies. I should be grateful, you tell yourself, because so-and-so has it even worse. Nine year-old Jessica Lunsford was kidnapped, raped, bound, wrapped in two plastic bags, and buried alive. When the authorities discovered her body, she was clutching a stuffed toy. A purple dolphin. Exactly how does a parent of a murdered child go on? I live in a state where sometimes I think animal and child abuse are the official state hobbies. I listen to the radio on the way to work and have to quickly turn it off to avoid the ghastly details of some new abuse case. Life is unpleasant and often horrific. You age, you get ill, your body and mind betray you, but you still have to get up in the morning and muddle through. I admire John Paul II for so powerfully illustrating how to keep getting up in the morning. He was hit by a car, but still got up in the morning. Was nearly assassinated, but still got up in the morning. Lost his brother and his parents, grew up under both Nazis and Communists, lived with Parkinson’s, then suffered through multiple surgeries and constant pain. Still got up in the morning. How could anyone watch that struggle and not be inspired to do the same? Treason number six: No matter how badly life sucks, you still have to get up in the morning. After all, it’s spring, and those birds are depending on you to fill their feeders.

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