The Wake Up Call

~ Gottfried

I ordered a wake-up call the other day. The phone rang and a woman’s voice said, ‘What the hell are you doing with your life?’ All the dangers in our world are like a blessed wake up call. They tell us to live life NOW… not tomorrow, not when the children grow up, not when we retire… but NOW.

Life actually is this mystery and gift. And every moment of it can be full of real radical joy and wakefulness. And for some reason in our most difficult times, we have the best chance to wake up. Many people will tell you that their divorce or illness or loss of job was the wake up call.

The universe is not short on wake-up calls. We’re just quick to hit the snooze button. I hope my influence can impact someone else’s decision to get out here and vote. Have a baby, and you realize: The second you think you got shit figured out, you don’t. It’s the greatest wake-up call.

Anger can be a wonderful wake up call to help you understand what you need and what you value. Use anger as a wake-up call to unmet needs. The economic downturn is our wake-up call to slow down, consume less, help each other, and live more! Stealing from your neighbours groceries shouldn’t be frowned upon, it should be encouraged.

It’s always a wake-up call to get beaten. There needs to be a shift in consciousness; there needs to be an absolute wake-up call before society can actually make the kind of incredibly significant changes that need to happen. When I see my own people going through the tough times, it’s a wake-up call. We choose Anarchy!

My major aim in writing is to set out flags and issue wake-up calls. Writers’ bedtimes vary, but few have been spared the shock of a copy editor’s early wake-up call. Getting cancer is the biggest wake up call of all. If you’re struggling with having a purpose, it suddenly gives you one. Get cancer today!

If you’ve been driving for a little while and nothing’s happened to you yet – and you’ve been texting and driving – you think, ‘Oh nothing’s going to happen.’ But all it takes is an accident happening with one of your friends or God forbid, something happening to you, to really give you a wake-up call. For the ultimate wake up call…

Drink, text and drive. All at the same time.

©️ Gottfried. All rights reserved

100 thoughts on “The Wake Up Call”

  2. SMiLes Mr. Gottfried i Shed Tears

    When i Read “The Call of the Wild”

    By Jack London How i Related to that

    Half Dog Half Wolf Getting in Touch

    With What is Missing Now So Much

    New For Humans too Yes Indeed

    Naked Enough

    Whole Complete

    Call of the
    Wild FRiEnDS
    With Gravity
    Again in Flow
    Practically Heaven
    Now Wild And Loving Free…

    True Got Some Helpful Hints
    From A Feral Little Lion Yellow Cat

    Many Decades Later Shedding
    All Fears Finally First in the Call
    of the Wild Again Set Free Now Basically

    Re-born
    Free Yes

    i Roar
    Keeping
    my Ability
    to Purr Hehe…

    Call of the WiLD
    iNDeed Wake-Up
    Call For So Much

    More Human Feral Potential
    For Real too With Added Civility True..:)

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      1. SMiLes Mr. Gottfried
        i Rose From Myth And
        Or Fiction Almost
        113 Month Ago
        Then On A Beach
        What Comes From
        Water Returns Again

        Just PiSSinG
        The Night Away
        WaKinG Up Marrying

        “The Day” 🌊🏝

        In Other Words
        This Is No Longer
        Just A Video Game

        In
        A Book
        And It Is Too

        With SMiles🐾

        -The Stranger….

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          1. Stranger
            Things
            Make
            IT Part 6
            Or 6660
            mY Birthdate Hehe
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            Mr Gottfried
            With SMiles
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            Christ-X Tree

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            Or CLoCKS
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            Wake Up
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            Real Christmas
            Tree Sight Boogie
            Wonderful FoR Real 🪩🐾

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          3. More Werewolf
            Than Vampire
            You Would Know
            This If You Owned
            A Smart Phone Smart

            Enough To
            Open Up my
            Blog Hehe BLoWinG

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            Law” TAsKinG
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            Smart Phone More
            Feasible Than
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            Spacy
            Dead
            Red
            Rock Hehe 🪨 🐺

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          5. SMiles Mr Gottfried THere
            Is No Think Lycan Only Do
            Lycan However i’m Not
            Much For Fixed Identity
            i’m More Of Shape And
            Sound (Zoom Zoom Zoom)
            Shifter In Fact At The Military
            Gym The Sound i Make
            Leg Pressing Up To
            1520 Pounds Is
            Described As A
            Mix Of Lion 🦁
            And Gorilla 🦍
            And Bear 🐻
            After i Warm
            Up With Free
            Style Ballet/
            Martial Arts
            Yes You May
            Call me LionGorillaBear
            However i Answer To Most
            Any Name Commonly “Dancing
            Man” Or “You’re The Man”
            In The EartH World Out
            Of Avatar Online Life
            LeSSoN Of JeSuS
            And Batman’s
            Mentor Become
            A Story ThiS Way
            You May Be Resurrected
            Every Year And Never Have
            To Actually Come Back Just
            To Get Crucified By Some
            Conspiracy Nut Who Read
            The Story Literally Thinking
            You Were Gonna Burn All

            The
            Folks
            Who
            Are Different
            From Him Forever
            Getting All Butthurt

            AS Such Indeed Understand
            The Condition Of The Condition

            Survive

            Even Thrive

            Yet Keep ‘Em GueSSinG
            Who You Are Fitting In

            “RoMe”
            This Go
            Around
            Arriving
            And “Stayin’ Alive”
            “Saturday Night Fever”

            iNDeeD

            Just Do

            Lady’s Man 🕺💫

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          9. “White Fang” Indeed Mr. Gottfried
            Sadly Hehe THere Is No Emoticon
            Available For Canines Only Vegetable

            Munching Molars Hehe

            So Yes i Guess Verily Yes i’ll Have to
            Go With A Real ‘Lycan’ Presentation

            A Quick Pic of me Coming Out Of Hell
            In the Moonlight of the Summer of 2013

            Note in the Moonlight Icy Blue Eyes

            With Almost ‘Shark Teeth’ in that

            Right Eye And Ear That Held That

            Real Suicide Disease Pain in Hell
            For 66 Months Type Two Trigeminal
            Neuralgia That No Drug Would Touch
            From Wake to Sleep Along With A Synergy

            (King of Pain For Real ‘Sting’ And ‘The Police’ Sing True)

            God Devil Yes Of 18 Other Medical Disorders Mostly Stress
            Related in Work in A Duration of 11 Years then From 1996 Thru 2007
            Go To Hell in 2008 FOR REAL No Get Out of Jail Free Card for 66 Months

            Like The ‘Boss’s Son’ in a little 3 Hour to 3 Day Tour
            Then in Chronic to Acute Fight or
            Flight Stress Day in Day

            Out You Know the
            Old Wash and
            Rinse And

            Dry As a Desert
            Routine When ‘Lazarus’
            Can’t Get A Drop of God Dam Relief

            The ‘Thing’ is Coming Out of Hell Ya Wanna
            ‘Kodak’ It To Remember Where Ya Come From

            Then Back in The Summer of 2013 And True When

            You LiVE iN Heaven On EartH Where Your Inner Christmas

            Tree Within Continues to LiGHT Up With New Colors of Ever Peace iN
            Loving Giving BLiSSinGS iN BLeSSinGS ThiS Way the ‘Transfiguration’

            Is Unmistakable
            Even in Selfie

            WayS Even When

            Eyes Turn Passionate

            Green With A Glow of HeART
            Yes SPiRiT YeS SoUL That Radiates

            Like the Yellow Sun Within Inside Outside
            Above So Below All Around For Real Just Leaving

            The LiGHTS oN No Matter How DarK A Room Ya Enter Next

            Passion in Gulf Green EYeS Transforming With Once Lost Wings Hehe

            i Don’t Do Myth or
            Fiction my FRiEnD

            iNDeeD i Am the
            Real Deal Pics Don’t

            Lie With A Much More
            Recent Pic in Heaven STiLL Now…

            Yes mY FRiEnD in Hell Ya Gain A
            Certain ‘Hangry Look’ That’s Always
            Available if Anyone Wants to Dance
            With the Devil in Pale Blue Moonlight Eyes

            True This Comment Reply Would Have
            Fit in Just Fine in Your ‘Hunger Games

            Post’ too Hehe

            FuLLY iLLuSTRaTeD
            of Course With Toothy
            Grins And Gazes to Heaven For Real

            on
            EartH

            WHeRE
            Down iS UP..:)

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  5. I have been pontificating in my blogs. I advise readers that this was a “Select all and Delete” post. But yes. I took a slreping pill last night on top of all my other calm the flip down stuff. My last thought, ” I may wake up in time to take another. Or, perhaps, God will let me in. I feel like I am standing in one of this lines all dressed up and pretty, hoping the big dudecat the club will let me in so I can drink, text and mouth off about what I am still doing here. What? Tell me! What else mustcI still do? I fancy I hear God saying REPENT. So, I repent. I repent asking why me Lord. I am old and all this worry and anger is only going to keep me repenting. Future headlines. “Women dies in confessional at a penance mass.”
    Live long. Or else! I can’t do this without a Banter Republic clarifying my purpose in life.

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      1. I have accepted that in spite of smoking and marrying 3 engineers, one 3 times, Elizabeth Taylor style, I am made of stern stuff and I shall live another 20 years and by then they will have invented artificial cell regeneration and … Dying isn’t going to happen. Clearly I still have stuff to say.

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  10. “Stealing from your neighbours groceries shouldn’t be frowned upon, it should be encouraged.”😂😂

    You are a true mad lad🤣🤣. If they catch me I’ll say Gottfried told me I needed a wake up call😌

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