I can still picture Robert Kennedy lying on the floor in a puddle of blood when he was shot several months later.
Howard Cosell told me John Lennon was murdered as I watched Monday Night Football.
On September 11, I was in the dining room where a television showed the planes crashing into the twin towers trying to calm down mentally ill people who were scared to death they were next.
More than I care to remember, I've witnessed people do cruel things to others with no care at all.
I've seen tsunamis, Hurricanes, Tornados, Flash Floods and all manners of weather kill people.
I've been inside crack houses trying to woo people out, held the hands of men dying from AIDS, was vilified for trying to help the mentally ill and have received enough "Hate Mail" to last the rest of my life.
I've seen all manner of evil ... not just spoken words ... but hideous actions.
"We didn't start the fire," Billy Joel reminds us.
It's been burning since Adam and Eve were expelled from the Garden of Eden.
Yet I still believe good always trumps evil, light drives away darkness, kindness is more powerful than cruelty and love reigns supreme.
I believe in Karma and eventually terrible things happen to bad people. Those struggling to do good things are eventually blessed with goodness.
I believe in second chances, Angels and most everyone I meet.
I seen Heaven and I've seen Hell in this life.
I don't believe we wait until death comes to experience either.
Life has an incredible ability to keep making itself over. I'm a much different person than I was a decade ago. I'm calmer, happier, very much in love, content and at peace with most everything I've done so far. I've been born again, reincarnated and evolved from what I was before.
I don't care what people say about my beliefs. I've heard it all before anyway. These things are the core of who I am now and I'm sure as hell not going backwards.
No, we didn't start the fire but I can use it for good things or for bad.
I choose good.
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