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William Schaeffer
Thursday, December 5, 2019
There is no LOVE in America. Nobody cares if you are dead or alive.
Four years ago today, I returned from ten days in the Los Angeles County Hospital with a broken neck. I broke three vertebrae in a car accident on 11/25/2015. My head was wired into a "Halo" neck brace and I was all alone in the world. Only two friends and three neighbors even helped me out, or even cared. Jack Kerouac once described Los Angeles as "the most brutally lonely city in America" -- I say "There is no LOVE in America and nobody cares if you are dead or alive"
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Not a single person of the one thousand people I worked with in VFX and computer graphics contacted me during my recuperation and recovery. There is no LOVE in VFX. There is no LOVE in computer graphics.
ReplyDeleteThe amazing thing is that I survived. It was a real universe test of spirit and I really never lost my cool (fortunately). I mostly just lay motionless on my bed for two months waiting to heal. Amazingly, I got better and NOBODY I meet now would guess the ordeal that I went through unless I told them. Lesson: 1) Be patient 2) Do what you can and don't worry about what you can't do (right now)... 3) Keep busy 4) Don't yell and scream and throw shit around 5) Thank people for their help and remember their individual kindnesses 6) Appreciate the rare beauty in ordinary things 7) forgive the selfish self absorbed assholes who write you off and never really liked you anyway (for they are missing the real beauty of life)... 8) Remember: You never know what the future will bring. 9) Have fun.
ReplyDelete10) Life is short.
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