L. Anne Carrington  

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  Date / Time: 6/30/2009 3:32 PM UTC

  Life's Too Short
  

  In light of all the celebrity deaths this past week, it had gotten me to thinking about how we as both wrestling fans and human beings in general don’t stop and think often enough of how life can be so short, how it can be cut off at any moment.
  
  Many of you who have read my column over the past six years already know that I have a great respect for the wrestling business, and the entertainment one as well. Wrestling is scripted, yes, but at the same time, it is a high-risk one. As a matter of fact, just about any occupation in our walk through life has its risks.
  
  As a couple of examples of the aforementioned deaths last week, at least two were shocking; two were only fifty years old, one appeared to be a perfectly healthy person who just returned home from shooting a new ad and another was in rehearsals to begin a new tour.
  
  It makes a person stop and think about their own life, doesn’t it?
  
  The thing is, we tend to take life for granted, being too criticizing, judging people too closely based on their appearances, sexual preferences, race, disabilities, past mistakes, mode of living, or whatever, when we should be looking at the person and what abilities and talents they have to offer the world–and the fact they have taken the time to share them with us.
  
  Does/did it really matter about one’s personal life? Even in the ring or on stage, we tend to be overly critical, not stopping to think how hard these people have worked to get where they are.
  
  As long as it doesn’t affect their performance or concern us in our own lives, why should we care if someone is, say, bisexual or working with a broken hand? Are our lives really that dull that we have to pick apart every detail of lives of someone we‘ll probably neither meet nor know personally? Why not just enjoy the product and the people in it and leave it at that?
  
  Why not just appreciate what they bring us every night and if and when we ever get the opportunity, to thank them for it? Instead of “It should be this way,” why not “I enjoyed this very much”?
  
  Even in “regular life,” we tend to be critical of those in our lives. Yes, the in-laws are annoying, the neighbors’ dogs bark at all hours, your kids are driving you up the wall all summer, the list goes on. But even here, we need to step back and take a break and realize what’s important.
  
  Life’s too short for pettiness. As far as I know, no one has died from too much noise or being annoyed.
  
  Take a walk, meditate, read a book, get to know that person you initially sat around and judged as being “odd” just because their lifestyles and beliefs weren’t the same as yours. You may be shocked that they’re actually good, decent people.
  
  Life’s too short; be good to those you admire–and each other. You never know when your own time could be up. Don't leave having regrets.
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