Perspective

Today was not a good day.

I woke up exhausted, cold and with a bit of a headache. Like most mornings when I don’t feel like getting out of bed, I turn on my iPod to connect with the world, check my email, maybe watch a TV show before heading downstairs for food. My twitter feed started out like normal – local news, a North Carolina concert announcement from Live Nation about Prince and then there it was – The earthquake that rocked Japan, sending a tsunami to Hawaii and the California coast. Then I turned on my phone to find a text from my mom that my cousin’s husband died last night.

Suddenly my crap didn’t seem so important.

Derez

Derez: short for Deresolution; a term from the Disney series Tron which refers to someone being dissolved. For a computer program, deresolution equates to death.

Weird way to start a post, I concur, but I use it for two reasons: 1) the song from Tron: Legacy inspired by the term is a favorite and 2) death doesn’t mean the end of all things, just the end of something. Whether human life or that of a computer program, all things are energy and energy never dies.