Time

Time is precious, spend time with your family, talk to one another, don't let the time pass you by.  Enjoy every moment with your family, you will be glad you did.

Once Upon A Time

Sebastian and Joanna were willing to give it a try one more time.  "Here we go", said Sebastian, "Are you Ready", he asked Joanna.  "Ready or Not", "here we come". "Let's do it, Sebastian". said Joanna.  Both of them closed their eyes, and concentrated on their home address:  "645 N. San Pablo, Brentwood, California". Sebastian had his eyes closed, and peaked to see if he was there yet. "No", said Joanna. "Not Yet".  So, they both closed their eyes again, and tried again. "645 N. San Pablo, Brentwood, California", Joanna opened her eyes, and  nothing happened, still sitting on that same bench.  "Ok", said Joanna "we are not getting anywhere, we are missing something here, or that so call Martin lied to us and is now laughing at us".  Sebastian, just agreed by knodding his head as of saying "you are right".  So, once again, they sat there quietly for a while.  Then Sebastian had an idea.  "Joanna, listen, I think concentration may not be enough, I think we should try to repeat it once or twice or three times, until we get it right".  "Let's try it, we have nothing to lose".  Joanna said,"if anything it's going to be fun, let's do it".  So Joanna and Sebastian tried it once, and no, nothing happened, then they tried it twice, and nothing happened, "ok", Sebastian this is it, our final try", said Joanna.  "Our final and last try".  Sebastian and  Joanna closed their eyes and concentrated really hard, and repeated the address three times, "645 N. San Pablo, Brentwood, CA", "645 N. San Pablo, Brentwood, CA", "645 N. San Pablo, Brentwood, CA".  They opened their eyes, and there with amazement, was 645 N. San Pablo, Brentwood, CA.  A beautiful white two story house with the black large lettering in front of it with the address 645 "N" San Pablo, Brentwood, CA.  "Wow", said, Joanna, "we are here", "we are here", "California, here we come", "Yeah". Sebastian yelled, Yeah!, "we are home", "we are home again".  Both Sebastian and Joanna looked at each other and remembered they were now ghost and had a quiet moment looking at each other.  Sebastian looked at Joanna and said, "well look at the positive side, we get to see our children and our home".  Joanna, sadly agreed, because she knew that she would not be able to hug them or kiss them or even say hello to them.  She consoled herself, at least by just watching them and going in what was once their home too.  Both gave a big sigh, and started walking towards the house.  As they walked, they noticed the steps they needed to step on, and so they walked one step at a time.  As they got to the door, they tried to open the door with their hands, but each had trouble, it was no longer possible.  So, Joanna thought for a moment, "We must use the same method we did before".  "It's concentration and location".  "let's try it, again, only this time, we need to concentrate on a particular room in the house," explained Joanna. Sebastian, said, "ok, I am for it, let's do it, then". So they did.  Sebastian and Joanna closed their eyes and concentrated for the living room.  "living room", they both said, and before they knew it, they were there.  Sebastian looked at the clock on the fireplace, and he noticed that it was 6:00 p.m. and as they walked in the living room, they saw a boy and a girl, and two adults quietly watching television, and eating popcorn while sitting on the couch. A dog next by the adult lady.  The dog appeared to be a Maltese.  They both got closer to the children, and they recognized James and Tamara, Sebastian got excited and Joanna was thrilled to see them.  Then, they looked at the two adults, and Tamara recognized them right away, "hey, it's my sister and my brother-in-law", "what are they doing here." Sebastian said,"they are probably just visiting the kids". Joanna said, "ok", I buy that". "Look at our beautiful children, Sebastian", "Tamara is such a beautiful girl, she's blonde, she has my blue eyes, and she appears like she is doing alright". "James, is so attentive watching the television, some of that popcorn is not even going to his mouth, it's going all over the couch",  "he is going to ruin my white couch with that greasy popcorn", Joanna said, with a real worried look on her face." "Stop", "Stop" yelled, Joanna.  "Quit", said, Sebastian, "it's useless" "Joanna, remember, we have no use for material things, a reminder, Joanna, "we are ghosts, we are ghosts, and don't you forget that, leave that poor boy alone, he doesn't know we are even here".  None of them can hear us or see us, you are wasting your time yelling at the poor boy, he can't hear you anymore,"explained Sebastian. "Well, in memory of his mother, you would think he would be more careful", said Joanna.  "yeah, sure", said Sebastian.
"ok", what next, Sebastian", asked Joanna.  "Well, we can roam the City of Brentwood, and come back later in the evening" "We can't stay here, just looking and gazing at them", "that for me, would be boring", said Sebastian,"let's roam the City of Brentwood, let's go to the theater and see what's playing, then let's go to the museum nearby, and let's go to the shopping mall, why not, we don't have to pay any entrance fees, we don't need a car for transportation, and  no one is watching us" "We can't buy things, but we can still enjoy seeing the clothes and the merchandise", "well", ok, Joanna said, "why not". "but we are coming back again to our home, right", "of course", said Sebastian.  "I want to be with my kids as much as possible, just like you do", but let's have fun for now".  "I want to roam and see the town," Sebastian said.  Joanna said, "Let's go, stranger".  Off they went into the City of Brentwood.  They loved the town, and had a great time going in and out from various theaters, watching bits and pieces of movies playing and watching the audience faces and expressions, they really enjoyed that.  Some were funny face expressions, while others were serious, while eating their popcorn, depending on the movie they were watching, while others were staring at the screen real hard, it was a crazy experience for the both of them, but they loved every moment of it.  They took off to the museum and loved the art there, and then they went to the shopping mall to check out the new clothes and the electronic devices, and of course the different people that were coming in and out from the shops.  They sat outside for a while to see the nice shops that surrounded the mall, and the nice cars that were parked on the parking lot.  They looked at each other once more, and smiled.  Sebastian said, "it's time now, it's getting late, let's go home now".  Joanna agreed, and they both concentrated on the address and repeated the address three times again, and both of them were standing in front of their house once again.  As they concentrated on the living room, and repeated the living room once, they were instantly there, and so as they roam around,  the living room was empty, so they looked in the bedrooms and noticed that the children were asleep, and as they went down the hall, they noticed another bedroom, and they looked inside the bedroom, and there was the couple fast asleep. The man was snoring loud, but he seemed very comfortable on that bed.  Sebastian and Joanna decided to just tour the rest of the home for good all times and look at the pictures on the wall that were full of memories.

For You

It's very important that you focus on you and don't compare yourself to others.  You are important.
Reach your goals and go for it. Have a great day.  I plan to.

Once Upon A Time

JoAnna and Sebastian discovered that now they were ghosts roaming with the living.  Both were sad, and wished that it were different, but of course there was no turning back.  They would have to adjust being ghosts and of course figure out what to do next, and how to do it.  How do you cope being a ghost?  What are the advantages and disadvantages of being a ghost, what  can we do and cannot do?  These are some of the questions, that kept coming to them as they walked together side by side. Will they be able to see their kids or their home again?  JoAnna remembered that once she saw a ghost story, and she remembered that one ghost told the other, that all you have to do is think that you are in that general area, and bingo, you would be there.  JoAnna then told Sebastian to try that," but first," she said, "we must both be in agreement to our location, because I don't want to separate myself from you". "Ok", Sebastian, "where do you want to go", asked, JoAnna. " Well", said Sebastian,"I want to go home, how about it?"  "That's what I had in mind", said JoAnna, "Let's try this, and see if it works", said JoAnna. "Remember, think the same location and concentrate", she said.  Sebastian closed his eyes, and started to concentrate, "Home Sweet Home", "Home Sweet Home", "Home Sweet Home", and JoAnna started to close her eyes and said, "I want to go home", "I want to go Home."Sebastian ended up at this business called, "Home Sweet Home Pie Shop", and JoAnna, ended up at her birth place, when she was a little girl.  JoAnna, looked around and founded amusing, but she was confused, and said,"how can that be, "I said, "I want to go home".  Sebastian ended up looking through a glass that had home made pies, nothing like home.  Sebastian said, "No, No, that's not what I am looking for, that is  totally wrong, though the pies look good, but that does not do me any good anymore, so now what do I do", he asked himself. "JoAnna, JoAnna, where are you" he shouted out, but JoAnna was no where near him.  "Darn", said, Sebastian.  JoAnna was looking for Sebastian, but there was no Sebastian at site.  "Ok, what do I do, I need to get back to Sebastian, where do I go from here", "Wow, this is not going to be as easy as I thought it would be"  "Sebastian, where are you, I need you back, this is real scary, being all alone is not a good thing", said JoAnna.  JoAnna remembered that Sebastian was whispering, "Home Sweet Home, Home Sweet Home", so she started to say the same words, "Home Sweet Home, Home Sweet Home", and in an instant, she found herself next to "Home Sweet Home Pie Shop, Sebastian was wondering around, not knowing what to do, then JoAnna spotted him, and called him, "Sebastian, over here", "Sebastian, over here", Sebastian saw her and ran towards her. "Thank God that I found you", said Sebastian, "No, thank God that I found you", said JoAnna.  JoAnna explained to Sebastian what happened to her, and she told him something was not quite right. JoAnna said, "We need to practice some more, something it's not quite right here".  They look around the location they were, and pretty much there were different places and diners where people can go and eat, such as cafes, restaurants, coffee shops and fast food chains.  They both were glad to be together again, and both were dazing at the sky  and  thinking, on how to adjust with their unexpected situation.  Suddenly, a young man appears in front of them, and JoAnna and Sebastian just didn't even acknowledge his appearance, they both thought this one guy was a living human being, and left him alone.  This young man rush to their side, again and again, but Sebastian and JoAnna did not care, they both thought it was a waste of time, talking to him, after all humans can't hear a thing.  However, the young man became persistent and a pest, and kept following them.  JoAnna noticed that he kept walking the same direction as they were walking, and kept trying to catch up with them.  The young man, said, "Hey, you two, stop, I am trying to talk to you, and you guys, just keep on walking. "Just stop for a second, "won't you", both of them appeared surprised, and looked at him.  "Wow, can you see us", asked, Sebastian, "Of course I can", said the young man", "but why", asked Sebastian. "why" the young man repeated the same word, "what does that mean", said the young man", "exactly what I said", said Sebastian.  "Why can you see us, and the others can't?"asked Sebastian again.  JoAnna, said, "Yeah,explain that to us", "Simple", said the young man,"I am a ghost too".  "Oh, I knew that", JoAnna said, with half a smile, she felt like an idiot.  "Ok", so what do you want from us", said Sebastian. "Nothing", said, the ghost, "Let me repeat myself, "I am a Ghost", "Ghost don't need much".  "Ok", then why are you following us?, asked Sebastian. "Well", said the young man, "I saw that both of you are having a hard time coping with this ghost syndrome, so I thought I help you out,  "that is if you want my help".  Sebastian looked at him for a while, and asked him, "why do you want to help us?",  "what's in it for you?", "not much", said the young man, "I just  want to gain points with the man upstairs".  "Do you want my help or not?"  JoAnna looked at the young man and looked at Sebastian for a while.  "Ok", said the young man, "I don't have all day, I'll see you guys later", and he was ready to disappear, when JoAnna, said, "No!, wait, we do need your help" Sebastian turns to JoAnna and says,"You think we can trust him", "Why not", said JoAnna, "we have nothing to lose, we are ghost too", remember!"  "Ok, first things first". said, JoAnna. "How do we travel, how can we go from one place to another place, and get there?", asked JoAnna.  "That's easy", said the young man,  "You just have to close your eyes and concentrate upon the location where you want to travel," "but we did that already, and it did not work", said JoAnna.  JoAnna started to explain how she and Sebastian did it, and the ghosts started to laugh.  "No, you did it all wrong", totally wrong", said the young man.  "You need to concentrate on the location and address where you want to be", "that's how you do it", said the young man.  Next time, try it and you will get there, I promise".  "Well, that's great to know," said, JoAnna,"thanks for the tip".  "By the way, what is your name?  My name is "Martin, just call me Martin".  "Ok", Martin".  "We will see you later", said JoAnna.  "No, said Martin, "you will see me around off and on, off and on" as he would appear and disappear instantaneously at that moment.  Sebastian and JoAnna walked towards the street, and decided to find a nice bench where they could concentrate to get to their location and their address.  Their destination would be their home. 

Once Upon A Time

JoAnna and Sebastian looked at each other and found themselves all alone in the dark there was no one at site. They looked at their mangled car, and there were cars coming and going on the freeway. JoAnna, asks Sebastian, "ok" smart guy", how are we going home?" "No problem, we will get home,"cars everywhere, no taxi, "ok", lets get out of here, let's find an intersection, and walk through the next town ahead of us," "not too far from here". "Come on, let's walk it", Sebastian encouraged her. "ok", "ok", I'm coming, I'm coming" replied JoAnna. They arrived to the town, and started to walk around to check the town out, and everyone was shopping.  It was about 8:00 p.m. and people were going in and out of stores.  Sebastian, turned to this gentleman, and said, "Sir, can you tell me where I can get a taxi?"  The man just walked right by him.  So, Sebastian asked another gentleman, "Sir can you tell me where I can get a taxi?" the man just walked right by him. Sebastian said,"did you see that, this town sure is not friendly, they just walk right by me"," and didn't even acknowledge me", "what's wrong with people nowadays, they are so rude, and so unfriendly", you try and talk to them, and see if you get any response from them, they sure are not listening to me, come on Joanna, you try", "ok", Joanna said, "I will try", " Ma'am can you tell me where I can find a taxi?", the lady walked right past her,"Ma'am, please we need a taxi, just tell us where we can find one, we need to get home, our kids are waiting for us at home".  Again, there was no answer and the lady just kept on walking.  JoAnna tried to get the ladies arm to get the ladies attention, but her hand went right through the ladies arm, and Joanna was shocked, so she tried again, and again, the same thing happen to her.  "Sebastian, Sebastian", "did you see what just happened to me?", No, Sebastian replied, "I am busy trying to get a taxi", "don't distract me right now", "No, Sebastian", "Listen to me".  "Joanna, please, let me get a taxi for us, we need to get home, it's getting late".  "ok, "ok", you see that man by the street corner, go see him, he has a hat on his head", Joanna said, and Sebastian replied, "are you crazy!" "He will slap me around, and we won't get home at that rate", "no way", replied Sebastian. "ok, "ok", then go try to walk that little old lady across the street, she needs help", said Joanna. "ok, I can do that, I am sure she will appreciate my assistance", Sebastian said.  Sebastian goes towards the lady and ask her, "May I help you", the little lady did not respond or even acknowledged Sebastian.  So, Sebastian, just thought to himself, and said, "ok" I will help her anyway".  He reaches out to get the little old ladies arm to guide her across the street, and his hand just goes right through her arm.  The little old ladies ends up walking all alone across the street.  "Sebastian was startled, "No Way," Sebastian said, and Joanna said, "Now, will you listen to me", "we are dead","we are dead!

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Once Upon A Time

The next morning, James and Tamara had to resort with all the phone calls that were coming in from relatives on both sides of the family. Funeral plans made from a responsible relative, and different offers from all sorts of family members, but only one couple stood up, that made them decide who to choose to stay with. However, they were not going to let anyone know who that was, until after the funeral, and until everything was pretty much calm down and stable. The aunt they choose was an aunt that almost looked like their mother, the mother's sister, why? because she was the one that seemed to be the most stabled in the group, and she offered to live with them, in the same house prior to their parent's death. She was not taking them away from their home, a home, a life that they were adjusted to and happy at one time. Their Aunt Elizabeth, was ready to take the challenge. However, she did have a husband and he too would have to agree upon the circumstances and the changes made by his wife. That would not be hard, why? because they lived in the bad side of town, and always wanted to live in a good neighborhood. So, Aunt Elizabeth would have to rent her home out, and live with James and Tamara, until they turn 21 years of age. The funeral began, and all was said, there was not much to see, because the bodies were cremated, but there were family pictures and portraits of them at the front, and their favorite songs played and a short family movie of the good times, with their two children as years went by. A few people stood up and talked about the couple, and tears were shed among those that knew the couple well. Time seemed forever for James, and he kept looking at the clock. He wanted to go outside and breath some fresh air, it was too much for him. He had already grieved, and wanted to just go outside and breath fresh air, and see nature as it is, peaceful and a certain silence with birds singing in the background.

Once Upon A Time

The two children walked home, and were both talking about what happened to them during the day, and they both were surprised to hear that each other, for some strange reason were sick at an instance, that was some strange consequence. Tamara went in the home first and James followed her in the home. Tamara went straight to the kitchen and found some left over turkey meat and some lettuce, mayo, mustard and a few coca-colas at hand. Tamara decided to make sandwiches for the both of them. They took the sandwiches to the living room, and started watching television. As they were turning and watching the different channels, they stumbled into the news, and they vaguely hurt the highlights, they heard something about a real bad accident that occurred on the freeway, and that all three drivers were dead, although they did not think that it was their Mom or Dad, because they had gone on separate cars when they left the home, and it was three drivers, so of course it did not phase them at all. So, they turned to the next channel to watch an action movie, the movie was full of adventure and lots of action. They appeared to enjoy the movie and their sandwich, and they were more relaxed. Tamara was falling asleep, and James was still looking at the movie and participating along with it, He was really getting into the movie.
It was around 9:00 p.m. when the doorbell rang, and James looked out the window, and he could see that there was a female police officer and a male police officer, and was curious why in the world they were ringing the doorbell, especially around this time of night. He opened the door and waited for the two officers to say something, The police officers looked at him, and they asked him if there was an adult with them in the home, James, said, "My parents will be back soon, I can call them if you want me too". The officers asked if there was anyone else beside himself in the home, and he said, "My Sister", but she's asleep on the couch right now". "May we come in"asked the male officer, and James said, "May I see your ID first", the officers pulled out their ID, and James let them in the home. James was puzzled, and in his mind, he could not understand why the police officers wanted to come in, and what in the hell was going on, why so secretive, and why he couldn't call his parents. The female officer asked James to please wake up his sister, so James called Tamara, and Tamara is half asleep and half awake, she did not even see the officers there, but as she opened her eyes wider, she could see that something was not quite right, especially with police officers in her living room. "OK", she is awake", James, stated. "Now, can I call my parents". Both the officers, looked at each other, and hesitated there for a while, for they knew this was not going to be easy. The female officer said, "We have bad news."James said, "bad news, what do you mean?", Tamara and I have been good, we haven't done anything wrong, we don't understand", "no", it's not about you and Tamara", "then is it about our neighbors, they can get rowdy at times, but they are good neighbors most of the time". "We know they are good people in our neighborhood", James responded. "No", it's not about your neighbors", the male officer answered. "Then, why the mystery, my parents should be walking through that door, pretty soon, you can tell all of us about what's going on", said, James. The female officer looked at both of them and said, "There was this terrible accident on the freeway" "Oh, Yes, we heard about it on the news, something about three drivers, that was real bad, we just vaguely heard part of the news on that," James said. James sit down, we need to talk said the male officer, "OK", go ahead", said James. "We are listening". The female officer, said, In this accident, three people died, I am sorry to be the one to tell you two, but out of the three, your parents were involved", "No, that's impossible", James said, "You are wrong", my parents took separate cars, there is no way, it was them, sorry, but you must be mistaken", Tamara was in shock, and was just listening to James and the officers argue about the bodies and their identity. James cried out, "it can't be true, no you are wrong, you wait they will be coming any minute through those doors, you see" James was in tears and Tamara started to cry too, "this is not happening, this is not real, it's a nightmare, we are having a nightmare", said, Tamara, they both hugged each other and starting crying, "how can this be", it's not possible", Tamara was in self denial. "The officers just stood there for awhile, then as Tamara calmed down for a few minutes, the female officer held Tamara in her arms. The male officer tried to console James, but James wanted to be left alone, and ran to his bedroom and closed the door behind him, it seemed like his world was all over for him. The officers explained to Tamara, that the possibilities are great, that they would now need to find a relative that would take them in for now because both of them were under age. So, they asked Tamara, about her relatives, and she gave them a few details. The female officers, consoled Tamara the best she could, and asked if there was anything else she could do,
and gave her a contact card, where she could be reached. The officers called one of Tamara's relatives who appeared to be an aunt, and aunt agreed to come over and stay with them over night, until they reach other relatives to take care of matters. Tamara went to her room and cried herself to sleep, and James was still in shock and just stared out the window through the dark and lonely street. He did not go to sleep, he was still hoping for his parents to show up at the door, but it was just a quiet as it was throughout the nite, and no site of his parents, he then realized that mom and dad were not coming home.