Ideas are like Juggling

Ideas are like juggling, you can only have so many up in the air at once. Which is why I find myself rediscovering the same couple of ideas over and over again. The first one is that we all die. I know, I'm starting with the big one! When someone I know dies, it's the same confused feeling I get when I see a dog on a skateboard. Like, how is this even possible? Who set this up? And what's even the point!? I apologize to anyone that has now associated a dog on a skateboard with death. I understand logically that we all die at some point, but I’m almost convinced it doesn't really happen, and that they just go off to some island and carry out their lives in Hawaii. This is probably how Heaven was created. A fantasy for those simple-minded people that can't really grasp the idea of “gone.” 

Another, lighter, idea that I find myself forgetting is that sugar is poison. Sugar has a powerful tool on its side (nostalgia). It makes me feel good. It's colorful. It has a song named after it. Yet I keep hearing whispers that my mistress sugar is actually a two-timing whore. She pulls everyone in. No one can resist her, and then she eventually gives them cancer and diabetes. That being said, the ten years she was in cahoots with the victim are often the best ten years of their lives.  

Another lesson is that we were all annoying in our youth. Every. One. Of. Us. We like to think that our developed, intelligent brain has been with us from the start. But it hasn’t been. It wasn't even a slow, gradual decision. It was us waking up one day and realizing it's no longer cute to have no health insurance. That no big, cosmic thing is ever going to make us level up. We don't get bitten by radioactive spiders. Genovia isn't real. Sugar free isn't calorie free. You just gotta decide to do the hard thing.