Current Events

Tango De Roxanne is still a very awesome song.

You're free to leave me
But just don't decieve me
And please believe me
When I say I Love You.

On the radio this morning, they were talking about an Arkansas man who in 1984, just after the birth of his daughter, fell into a coma. Just now, 19 years later, he woke up. He has been gone for the last nineteen years! The world we live in is strikigly different from what he knew when he went to sleep! What's more, he's missed half of his life (he was 19 when he slept)! His daughter is as old and he thinks he is! Within reason -- I'm sure he has the mental capacity to recognize that he's been in a coma for a long, long while. Still, he hasn't 'grown' a day, other than physically. Arguably, I'm older than this 38-year old man.

I can't even fathom the concept... to wake up one day with half your life gone? He's never known his daughter. His wife has aged nineteen years, and arguably is not the same woman he married. Friends and family have moved or died. The entirety of the world has changed on him. Reagan was the last president he knew. He's missed Clinton, 9-11, the rise of Computers (the first Apple Macintosh was going on sale when he went to sleep). The world is alien to him, everyone he knew has, I suspect, changed in ways that distance him very much... I imagine that more than anyone else, this man is alone.

-shivers- I can't even imagine. It would take a very strong individual indeed to cope with that sort of thing...

A few things have stayed the same: The Middle East is still fighting, U2 is still playing the same music, Madonna is still around... Though, the line between musician and actress is far-blurred... And Micheal Jackson, who was black when this man went to sleep, is now white... This man has missed out on everything I have ever known.

I wonder if his daughter's cute...
Though, Arkansinians tend to be weird...

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Edit: Here's an article on the subject, found at USA Today.

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So, right, Trevor responded to my last post, and my knee-jerk impulse was to go and delete the comment. Not that he really said anything offensive, but he just bothers me, after living with him for a year. Like, I wish he would just leave me alone, but I can't bring myself to be ass-enough to tell him so. A part of me just wants to tell him off for all the different shit he's pulled, but another part of me recognizes that he isn't doing it on purpose, he just honestly doesn't know any better.

Of all things, I think ignorance vexes me the most.

And yet, that's part of why I can't just tell him off and have that be that -- because I don't think it's right. I don't know, I can't really explain it... but wouldn't it be rather 'ignorant' of me if I...? I think I also feel a bit guilty cause, well, I think he looks up to me. -shrugs- I've always tried to be honest and upfront with him (excepting the minor detail of letting him know how much he irritates me), and he seems to respect that. Possibly because he's so incapable of doing so himself (and trust me, that's not just a jab at him; he really seems unable to be... he's always so... 'contrived' comes to mind...).

Truly, though, I think I'd be happier if he just up and left me alone.

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