Sinéad O’Connor’s death 

The headlines read, “Sinéad O’Connor dead at 56,” and as I read the article, I wonder about the mental health of our world. But before I get to that, I grew up listening to Sinéad O’Connor and when she came out with a shaved head singing, everyone was blown away by her talent. I thought she was one of the few women in the world who could carry the shaved head look because she was perfectly exquisite, but perhaps it was her beautiful soul that radiated from within her. I love the fact that she was a non-conformist and an activist. I identify with her. She was real, saw the truth and said it as it was. She stood up to nonsense, and was defiant all the way to the end. I just wish that both she and her son hadn’t died before their time. They could have contributed so much to this world that’s often superficial and unyielding.

Life sucks sometimes, but you keep pushing forward and fight back. I think that it’s not enough to just have one reason to want to live. You need to have many reasons to want to live. 

There are checks and balances in the universe. With every bad, there is good. With summer, comes fall, with fall, winter, and with winter, spring. Each one of us has to find our own way to deal with sadness.

 

When I’m not happy, I deal with it by listening to music, going for a walk, doing puzzles, watching a movie, reading, and meditating. We all need to find out what works for us and do that in order to feel better. After COVID, the world took a turn for the worse, and it seems that the mental health of people is in danger, and needs to be addressed. I don’t think there were as many suicides before COVID (I don’t trust the bogus statistics), and it’s a shame because many people who killed themselves were kindhearted, and could have contributed so much to society. When life gets unbearable at times, we need a moment to let go, and realize that this will pass too. Time may not help us forget things that are important to us, but it will lessen our pain and help us heal.