Ritual

We are human.

Ritual is important. Whether you are agnostic, atheist, or religious. Ritual is a repeated sequence of actions, carried out on a routine, set in time, basis. Rituals help us remember. Without separating things out, we can not categorize, and basically record, more importantly interpret, chunks of time.
Rituals divide these chunks and make life meaningful.

The problem of our generation is that computers, ease of travel, instant communication, black berries, lap tops, flexible working hours, global warming...George Bush in the white house...

Well of that stuff up there it blurs time. Political correctness attacks holidays, attacks religion way over the top and irrationally (they pick on the good tenets of religion). Global warming destroys weather patterns and interrupts our seasons, I had no summer here in England.

So in this time of Time Strife, I say Ritual. It is Halloween, for me. Hot or cold, rain or shine.
I break out black sabbath, goth, and remember the clubs. I remember. I sit down and relive that point in my life that was magical, emotional, and painful.

I live though. Ask me about work I can not tell you, its all my time though, put a painful stale blur.

But around October, as I turn 29. I remember candles, candy corn, and most of all my Dad. I remember Halloween and all that is good, not evil. I remember pop corn and horror movies, Bela, and Karloff.

It is these things that we live and miss, that we can recall. If only we turn off our computers, call a friend, or remember with a song, that time when things were OK or not OK, just to feel, to be, to be human, to make ritual.