https://laurelinobrien.com/2019/09/29/in-the-end-it-doesnt-really-matter/

Lincoln Park said it best, in the end it doesn’t really matter. I have heard my entire life, that your life flashes before your eyes when you die. Well I died, and no life flashed before my eyes. I don’t know who came up with this, but it certainly is not true. And I want my life to flash before my eyes. And I want to only see my child. Everything else seemed so meaningless.

Maybe life did not Flash before my eyes because I have not lived enough. I have to tell you, the reader, that death is very comfortable. It’s not scary at all. In fact, it is life that is far more complicated than death. In the movie hook, in the early 1990s, Robin Williams says, deaths would be a great Adventure. But to live would be the Greatest Adventure of all. Robin Williams has been my hero since his performance in Dead Poets Society. I never thought that this line from Hook would be true. But it is. Death is easy. Life is hard.

If you ever experienced this flash of the life before your eyes, please tell me about it. I really want to experience it. I have to admit, I’m a little disappointed in my deathly experience. It really wasn’t that bad .Does that mean I’m boring? Or does it mean it wasn’t my time.?

It’s not fair. I thought all my questions would be answered after death, but they we’re not. In fact, I am left with more questions than answers

https://laurelinobrien.com/2019/09/20/a-mans-world/

It is a man’s world. Everyone knows this. I am a very educated woman, but I will never make as much as a man. With the same education, the same experience, I just am missing the body part they have. It is a man’s world. I have a beautiful daughter, and I want her to know that she can do anything a man can do. But let’s face it, it is a man’s world.

Yesterday my husband got a random friend request from a female. It was just her taking selfies in the mirror. I told my husband, I get 8 to 12 friend request a day from Men. I am not stupid. I know what they want. The other day, one actually messaged me that they would give me money for you know what. I am married. My profile says so. What is wrong with people? Why is it that my husband does not get all of these strange friend requests and I do? I will tell you why… Because people think they can get away with it and they hope so bad that this crippled handicap woman will put out. It is ridiculous.

So how do we as women compete? It is simply impossible right now, in the world we live in. We still haven’t had a female president for goodness sake! But let us not forget, girls, that men do rule the world. But women rule the men.

https://laurelinobrien.com/2019/09/16/hero/

I have a hero. But I do not know his or her name. I do not know the sex of this person. I do not know their race. For all I know that person is you. My hero has B+ type blood. I receive at least eight blood transfusions that saved my life. Someone took time out of their day, and donated their Precious Blood to a stranger. And that stranger was me. Thank you for saving my life, whoever you are.

Because of you, I get to watch my daughter grow up. Because of you, my daughter has a mother. I wish so much that I could personally thank you. But I do not know who you are. You have given me the greatest gift on Earth oh, you have given me life.

We talk so much about passing it on. The best way you can pass it on, is to give blood. Take 30 minutes out of your day and donate blood. I promise you it is worth it. You just might save a life. And last year, that life was mine.

https://laurelinobrien.com/2019/09/16/meditation/

I began meditating at age 11. The first time I experienced something profound. I had all these mathematical equations come bombarding into my brain. A year later, I meditated the strange doors before me. I wrote about it. But I lost the journal in a flood. I have recently begun meditating again.I have yet to have a profound of experience however, I do find that the world around the world around calms down when I control my breathing. I know there is something very spiritual behind meditation. I want to tap into it again. I think maybe I’ll just need to just slow down in life. Why not stop and smell the roses? There has to be something behind that ideaTake 10 minutes out of your day and try and meditate. All you have to do is breathe in through the nose and out through the mouth. It is amazing the relaxation you will feel.