The Greatest Pain in Life

The greatest pain in life 

is not to die, but to be ignored. 

To lose the person you love so 

much to another who doesn't care at all. 

To have someone you care so about so much throw a party... 

and not tell you about it. 

When your favorite person on earth 

neglects to invite you to his graduation. 

To have people think that you don't care. 

The greatest pain in life, 

is not to die, but to be forgotten. 

To be left in the dust after another's great achievement. 

To never get a call from a friend, just saying "hi". 

When you show someone your innermost thoughts and they laugh in your face. 

For friends to always be too busy to console you when you need someone to lift your spirits. 

When it seems like the only person who cares about you, 

is you. 

Life is full of pain, 

but does it ever get better? 

Will people ever care about each other, 

and make time for those who are in need? 

Each of us has a part to play 

in this great show we call life. 

Each of us has a duty to mankind 

to tell our friends we love them. 

If you do not care about your friends 

you will not be punished. 

You will simply be ignored... 

forgotten... 

as you have done to others. 

The Prey

Day 8 of the 30 Day Challenge - A Photo that Makes You Angry / Sad

Pulitzer Prize winning photo taken in 1994 during the Sudan famine.

The picture depicts a famine stricken child crawling towards an United Nations food camp, located a kilometer away.

The vulture is waiting for the child to die so that it can eat it. This picture shocked the whole world. No one knows what happened to the child, including the photographer Kevin Carter who left the place as soon as the photograph was taken.

Three months later he committed suicide due to depression.

Impacted Again?

I was just editing the songs for our next production this morning when all of a sudden, I felt so much pain from right side of my teeth that the pain immediately went to my head. It was so painful that tears fell from my eyes. I immediately called our company's medical insurance company and asked for names and addresses of the dentists closest to me. Turned out, they were all out of town. The closest who was available was around 20 to 30 minutes away. I immediately left the house in pain.

When the dentist checked my teeth, she said that the probable cause of the pain is a possible impacted third molar, known to many as the wisdom tooth. What?! She must be kidding! It has only been a year since I had surgery, to have my impacted tooth removed. It was VERY painful and VERY expensive, and now this dentist is telling me that I have to have another tooth surgically removed? I told her all about it and she suggested that I get a tooth (or teeth) x-ray to determine if this that's causing the pain is another tooth, or part of the old tooth that was supposedly removed last year.

I will have my x-ray once I get my last pay from my previous employer because I'm just broke now. In the meantime, I'm taking antibiotics and pain relievers.