<span style="font-family: Verdana">"They go and they come and they come and they go, and always too soon..." - From "Blazing Saddles"</span>

That could be said of Whitney Houston, and a whole bunch of other people in show business.  It could also be said of friends, family, other people significant in life.

We think we'll live forever, and we don't.  Or we think we will pass on quickly, but end up hanging on well into old age.  However we live our lives or how tightly or loosely we hold on to life, we all have that final appointment.

Even though deep down some of us know this, we like to live as if that were not a reality.  It's too scary, too painful, just too much to handle.  And for those who find life too scary, too painful and too much to bear, they might think of their passing as something else, maybe a blessed release from the fear and the pain.

The people who go through the latter scenario really know what their thoughts, feelings and perception of reality was before they left this life.  If only they were able to share this with someone who understood and could be able to help them to deal with what they are dealing with.  If only they could step away from the tunnel vision of death being "the answer".  If only, for once, instead of saying, "I'm fine" as a blanket statement to "help other people feel better", they could somehow find someone safe in their hour of need to say what they are actually feeling, and maybe avert tragedy, at least for today or this hour or the next few minutes.

It's times like this that any one of us could be that friend, the one that takes the car keys, the one who stays with a friend because the person might do something to harm themselves, the one who says, "I don't know what to do, but maybe we can find someone to help who does know what to do..."

Maybe that is a life lesson for those of us left behind...that opportunities to be that friend are closer than we think, and that when that opportunity comes, we can do what we can to help.

They go and they come, and they come and they go, and always too soon...I don't know if it was "just her time to go", but for those who love her and miss her, she left too soon.

God bless you, Whitney, wherever you are.

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