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Thinking About Things that get canceled

Back in the early to mid-2000’s Hollywood was plagued by a lot of nervous nelly execs. Why do I say this? Because these where the years some may remember that the execs were cancelling shows let in right at the slights sound of trouble.

I remember so many shows I started watching that I enjoyed got cancelled one after the other. Deadwood, Stargate Universe and the list goes on and on. It was abrupt, disappointing and always a bit of a shock. Look at Breaking Bad. This show had one of the slowest some would say boring starts and turned out to be one of the best shows ever made. It was almost cancelled.

I was thinking about it this week and I started to realize life is the same way sometimes. Friends get cancelled sometimes and I am not talking about the TV series. For various reasons friends get cancelled and abruptly sometimes. Maybe they move away, maybe you part ways with a friendship because of a disagreement. Maybe even a difference of religious believes may make you cancel a friendship.

Jobs you love could be cancelled. Either by you or your employer. Maybe the company is downsizing, going bankrupt or just plain are not happy with you.

The hardest of all is loved ones get cancelled in a way when they die. This one is by far the hardest to get over and many times people don’t fully recover from this cancellation. Sometimes loved ones move away and you lose close contact and over the years you just grow further and further apart emotionally.

Cars have and will always get cancelled on you over the course of your life. If it hasn’t happened to you yet just wait its coming. At least with cars we have a choice to fix em. I guess it may be a guy thing but even though a car is just a material thing we love them and treat em like a part of the family sometimes. Silly I know but us guys will be guys like that.

I recently had a cancelation of sorts when 2 of my Dogs ran away and never came home. They took a piece of my heart with them. They were treating with love and care. Spoiled beyond compare. I was mystified as why they ran away. It took me a bit to stop being mad at them and move on to the mourning phase.

In life a lot of things are out of our control to be cancelled. That’s why the things we can have a say in or control of like a friendship or family moving away we need to do our best to make sure they are not permanently cancelled. If your friendship got cancelled do your best to forgive and mend the friendship. If family moves away do your best to stay connected.

In the end the memories we create and friends we make matter most. So take the time to put in time with those that matter most before they get abruptly cancelled.

This is Will B. saying live, love and create memories worthy of remembering.