Keep Calm and Carry On

Last year I adopted a slogan to how I would live my life for the rest of that year and beyond. The slogan was "Keep Calm and Carry On". Many of you reading this will recognize the slogan from the British World War 2 propaganda campaign that was never launched. Also from the very successful line of products bearing the slogan. 

The reason why I adopted the slogan as my own personal motto was because I had just lost my nephew to a motorcycle accident. He was 22. People who know me may say, "but Dwayne you've always been a clam person." Yeah this is true, but losing someone so integral to their family and so young tends to change them.  

In order to prevent myself from unraveling and losing myself to what was happening around me. I needed something to ground me, something to prevent myself from flying off. Thus I took the WWII era slogan as my own.

Now some of you a probably wondering why I'm writing all of this. Well this past week I got word that my Aunt died of a what they feel is a heart attack. She was 57. Just when I thought I had come to accept the death of one family member, I have have grief for another. 

Words can't really express what I'm feeling cause my mind has yet to accept the fact that she's gone, that we're once again mourning the loss of another family member.

Rest well Aunt Winnie.

Keep calm and carry on.