What Death Can Do

I don't know if you've noticed but when someone dies, especially someone close to you, one tends to take a step back and look at their life and I mean really take a close look at it.

Last week, I watched an episode of Nashville where Juliet drunk/wasted/high climbed up onto the roof of her hotel. Negative thoughts were going through her mind. Her husband just gave me divorce papers, her manager said she was a "waste" and she had no friends. For those who don't know the show or the story line, Juliet is a country/pop singer who has toured all over the place. Her life is nothing close to glamorous but her paperazi and fans think so. She married Avery, a music producer, and had a child with him. Whenever she is in town, she'd rather talk to Avery than her newborn daughter. Avery, being a good father wanted her to spend time with both of them. Soon, she withdrew and changed her number without telling him. Her manager has a reputation of not caring about anyone but rather the bottom line and how his name can be heard/known. He is also has a history with Juliet that is anything but pleasant.

Fast forward to this episode, she tries to kill her self but her manager sees what she is trying to do and as he saves her, he plunges to his death. Being drunk and so out of it, she somehow gets to her room and falls asleep. When the police wake her the next morning to tell her the news, she has no idea what happened last night so she tells them she fell asleep early.

Towards the end of this episode, Juliet's mind finally pulls out the memory of what happened and she goes to a clinic to get help with her drug, alcohol and other problems she's been having but chose to ignore. It took her realizing that her horrible daily choices killed someone for her to realize she needed help. This happens all the time and I wish people would realize that they don't live in a bubble much less a vacuum. Their choices, my choices effect others. It's up to us to discern for ourselves what might the consequences be (good and bad) if we do something.

I'm happy to say that someone did see the entire thing that night and hopefully in the coming episodes, the police will find out the truth.