Monday, June 11, 2018

David Cassidy's last words

I remember watching The Partridge Family television sitcom.

David Cassidy was a young, attractive, musician and singer who acted on the The Partridge Family show. I thought it was a popular and entertaining show.

David Cassidy was also on the cover of Teen Magazine multiple times.
I remember this because I bought and read Teen Magazine.

I was a teenage in the 70's when America was settling into integrating schools.
The Vietnam War was behind us and the Cold War was cooling down.
The news and media programs fed us segments of vivid, colorful images for our hungry eyes to feast upon space exploration images. We were kept in-the-know on professional athletes on the field, courts, tracks and raceways. We saw Walt Disney hosting his wonderful world. Journalists, photographers and reporters, producers and directors gave us people and animals of foreign lands to view in our living rooms in technicolor. Movies for television and the big screen were alluring, interesting and entertaining, from The Wizard of Oz to Gone with the Wind and the Sound of Music. And speaking of music, Jazz, New Age,  Hard Rock, Easy Listening- they were all vibrating ear drums in stereo from live stages, radio stations, or sound systems that spun records or tapes.

Television shows were basically wholesome in that the entire family could watch television together and not hear any profanity, see cleavage, or unmarried people in bed together. The Brady Bunch, The Sonny and Cher Show, The Carole Brunette Show, Bonanza, Gun Smoke, The Green Hornet, Dragnet, Adam-12, and Star Trek were shows I liked.

I was shocked when I heard David Cassidy had passed on November 21, 2017. He was 67.
In reading of his passing, his daughter, Kate, shared his final words.

"So much lost time."

These last words spoken by David Cassidy before he took his final breath were so poignantly true to life. This author apparently thinks so, too.

I have to say I am guilty of wasting too much precious time on frivolous nothingness.
I have to say I am guilty of wasting many precious moments, hours, months, years on stuff that are NOT ever going to positively lead to anything positive or worthwhile.

Time not spent frivolously is a very sad, grieving loss to me.

I'd rather spend precious time involved in promoting a positive life change for the better. And time spent promoting a spiritual change of my heart is the best use of time because it's effects are not just temporary, they're eternal.

I've wasted and lost too much time on temporary, unimportant stuff. I can relate and agree with David Cassidy's last words.

I don't want to not come to my last moments and be regretful of 'so much lost time.'

I want to be passionately focused on not mounting up much more lost hours, weeks, months and years than necessary.
How about you?