No wait. I’ll change that to “Not Just Another Blog”. Everywhere I look on the internet today are blogs on “How To”, “Three Things You Never Suspected About Your Cat”, “10 Surefire Secrets of Being An Internet Billionaire”, etc etc. The interwebs are filling up with crap really quickly.
I decided to do something a little different with this blog. I decided to use it to write fiction. Short stories, serials, that sort of thing. I’m going to invite other writers to join in too, and we can all have a blast making stuff up.
I get a little tired of reality day in and day out, I enjoy a good yarn and this is the place to do it. Of course I’ll have to write copyright stuff all over the place – like this work is copyrighted to the authors and all rights are reserved and no part may be reproduced in part or in whole without the authors express permission. All that sort of stuff.
This is about being original, whether it be funny, sad, dramatic or romantic. The point is it is made up – with no resemblance to persons living or dead intended. So won’t you join me?
It’s not about God
I recently went to a friend’s funeral. It was a full on Catholic affair and I found it offensive and disrespectful. It was all about God. The poor sod who’d died prematurely hardly got a mention. So I’m specifying in my will that my funeral is to held somewhere other than a church. And I’m including this poem, to set the tone.
It’s not about God
It’s about me
It’s not about whether I stopped to smell the rosary beads
It’s about whether I stopped to live my life
And it’s not just about me
It’s about you too
You who have come to wish me farewell
I trust you’ll remember me for my strengths
As well as my weaknesses
I trust you’ll miss me
But not too much
Life goes on
But not for me