Sex offender found with knives

I have to admit I don't spend a lot of time thinking that it will actually happen to me. Especially not now, at 34 and healthy (knock on wood). Life feels like life it will go on forever. But the truth is, anything can happen at any moment, and we just don't know what is going to happen.It's time that MLB as a whole tackled this issue  We could be gone tomorrow.I was sharing with a close friend who I believe is a pretty wise person, and I told him about the blog I wrote on suicide. I told him, 'not that I'd DO it, but of course life has felt meaningless at times.' I wanted to know how he seemed to be happy all the time. He certainly does not possess material things or have a spouse or family or other people to 'make him happy'.He told me, in his usual blunt and 'shape-it-up-Maggie manner', then if I feel like that, stop being attached to money and things and people and my identity and live life like you don't care about that stuff. Then if you end up homeless and on the streets and die of starvation then you are right off where you could have been if you had killed yourself.Harsh and funny at the same time, but I suppose there is some truth to that.
True freedom comes from shedding our attachments to things, including all of the stuff we talked about above (food, people, even the way we think of ourselves and our own expectations for our lives). So living fearless to me seems to open up a whole new realm.A realm that I'm probably not 100 percent ready for, but getting at. The key to clarity for me here is surrounding myself with people that think this way. That strive for Un-Attaching to the Matrix that we think is life, but it's really so much more. While thinking about my friends that understand this, another good friend texted me out of the blue: "I just looked at the sun. Do you realize it is just fire?" That is a good friend to have.Someone to talk about our smallness with that will help us keep the Human situation in perspective and remember that we are just passing visitors in this big weird world.