David Bowie smoking

It’s one of those nights where the internet is failing me. I’m bored and alone, and it’s late, and I need something to fascinate me. I need something to distract me from my boredom and loneliness, and remind me that my attention span has become sufficiently short that I shouldn’t ever really worry about anything that happens to be bumming me out at any given particular moment. It’ll pass. It always does.

Of course, there’s plenty of David Bowie in my feed, and there has been for almost 24 hours now, and even CBC Radio One is still droning on about him in the background (as it has been doing since I work up this morning), but I’m already a little bummed, and I don’t need another reminder that there’s yet another reason to be bummed out about this reality and what’s going on in the world today — especially today, today. I need something to distract me from all that, to take me away, off into the ether of some strange subreddit or conspiracy theory that’s so surprisingly plausible that I want to believe that it’s true — or even need it to be (like the one about how Donald Trump’s really just a saboteur plant for the clintons).

Instead, it’s all Bowie, Bowie, Bowie, ashes to ashes, dust to stardust, and Major Tom just put the last of it up his nose. The party’s over, and the rest of us will realize it as soon as we all start coming down, and realize that Ziggy won’t be answering our texts for the rest of the night — or ever again, for that matter.

One of my heroes is dead. And that’s it. He’s gone. There are no more days left for us to steal. And I’m too bored and stupid and lazy to write him a proper and fitting obituary. Maybe I should stick to wedding vows. Maybe I should stop plugging my older blog posts.

The funny thing is that David Bowie was the soundtrack or the backdrop (or whatever the right word is) to a very pivotal time in my life. It was a good time in my life, and I remember it fondly. I could tell you all about it, but that would be self-indulgent, and I think I’ve done enough of that already. The point is that Bowie framed a lot of the those good times, and might’ve even been responsible for them.

It was a magic time in my life, and now that he’s gone, there’s that much less magic in the world. It’s like having to grow, like Peter Pan, and realizing that you could’ve never really appreciated that magic while it was there because you’d never know life without it before? But now you have to, so there you have it — for the rest of your life.

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Hi, I'm CT Moore (@<a href="http://twitter.com/gypsybandito">gypsybandito</a>) and this is my personal blog, a place where my thoughts go to wander. I'm a recovering agency hack who now manages <a href="http://socialed.ca/seo/">SEO</a>, <a href="http://socialed.ca/social/">social media</a>, and <a href="http://socialed.ca/content-marketing/">content marketing</a> campaigns through my consultancy <a href="http://socialed.ca/">Socialed Inc</a>. Sometimes I speak at conferences, too, but you can check me out on <a href="http://ca.linkedin.com/in/ctmoore">LinkedIn</a> if you really wanna know <i>that</i> much more about me. And if you have any questions, please feel free to leave a comment or drop me a line. I love it when strangers come a callin' ;-)

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