This is not about Steve Jobs or crying!

I should be getting ready to go into school right now but on my way home from taking Brent to work I was listening to the radio and they had comments on the death of Steve Jobs and it reminded me of a joke I heard yesterday about him dying.  It made me mad.  Not because I knew him or because I think he was a great guy.  Not because he did wonderful amazing things that benefit the world (although...).  No it made me mad because he died from cancer.  It's one thing to joke about someone who does something stupid or outrageous.  It's another thing entirely to make fun of someones passing especially when it's something one fights so hard to recover from.  Brent told me he had been suffering for a few years now and that it finally sent him Home.  The reason this makes me so angry is because if you have ever been around someone who is struggling physically from this, they are struggling more emotionally!  Not only are they struggling but so is EVERYONE who is close to them.  I've been close only a few times with someone who has passed from cancer but more I've been close to people who have someone close to them who is struggling with cancer.  It's emotional and it's heartbreaking and slowly it's becoming something that, because of research, one can survive but still, it takes so many Home.  Has our society become so cold and unfeeling that we feel the need to make fun of someones passing in order to feed our own ego's?  No, I didn't know him but I know that there are countless others who are fighting this uphill battle and innocent little jokes and pokes are completely inappropriate, damaging, and wrong!  Has compassion been lost?  I pray not.  I hope I can take this as a reminder to myself that I need to think before I open my mouth to give an opinion.  Right within my own circle there are two sisters who are about to take a 60 mile walk (Go to this site if you would like to help them in their fight) to raise money for Breast cancer research because their mom recently died and another who's mom is in her last treatments of chemo.  It's not very far from us at any moment! Open the eyes a little wider!  

On another small note....  After the thing about Steve Jobs, the radio station played the National Anthem! I cried!  (Big surprise!!!)  I know why I cry almost every time I sing (at the top of my lungs in an inclosed car is the best place) that song.  It is because I feel like there's always hope as long as my loved ones are out there watching over my freedoms.  I am proud to say I'm an American and I'm proud of the men and women who watch over me.  I'm proud to live in this country with all it's faults and problems and I'm proud to say that whenever I think of those men and women and the time and energy they spend watching over me, I cry!  I'm a big ole cry baby!  So, to close this post, I wanted to give a big shout out to the men and women I know personally who are out there watching over me.  Scott, Katie, Jeff, Jordan, Patrick, Cory, Sean, and Keiffer and I'm positive I've forgotten a few! Thank you all from the bottom of my heart!