Life is short and can end at any time, of this I'm sure

Happy Saturday!

My fellow readers! I hope you survived okay this week and yesterday especially. Walking home from work yesterday was hot and humid but luckily the wind blew just enough to make the 18 some minutes bearable. And today it seems to be the same case. So, if you are going outside and will be out for a good chunk of time, please, please, stay hydrated and cool as you can. Also, this shouldn't need saying but it seems to happen every year around this time, please don't keep little kids and pets inside cars when it is this hot and humid out. 

I want to give a little shout out to my fellow library co-workers for surviving the first week with a new system to check in/out books, etc. I know it's still new and challenging and patience-testing, but we can do this (with the aid of chocolate). Also, it was quite the surprise to see Ciara, a past library co-worker, yesterday! I literally jumped out of my chair to go give her a (running) hug. So this week was balanced out well.

Here's the link to my latest Odyssey article: College Students During Summer, As Told By Jimmy Fallon.

Life is short. We know this. Or at least we think we know it. When we lose someone close to us and while we are in mourning, we are reminded of an absolute, one of the few things life can guarantee. Life is short. No matter what we do to make us live just a little bit longer, life finds a way. As morbid as that might seem, it's the truth. 

But the tricky thing life does, or maybe we do it to ourselves, we find a way out of our sadness and continue to live with the loss. We get lost in our routine of our day to day life, and somehow we forget or take for granted the things and people we love most in our lives. And without meaning to, we let ourselves get comfortable again.

Until it happens again. Someone close to us is taken from us and in some way it remind us of our own mortality. That just like your loved one, your life can end just like their's did. And we repeat the process over again. Now, I'm not trying how to live your life. Life is short, and we can't let routine fool us into forgetting the life is short.

Rest in peace, Christina Grimmie