Jason Edward Posluszny

Tonight Allie and I were sitting on the floor playing Wii. Maya was crawling around on the floor in front of us and Chris was sleeping on the couch. The remote was on the ottoman behind us. The receiver was on so we could hear it through the speakers. All of a sudden the receiver switched to the radio. It is possible the dog hit it, but I know it wasn’t any of us and I really don’t think it was the dog. Anyway Citrus 95 was on and a song was just starting. I thought it was weird so I listened to it. The song was "We Weren’t Born to Follow" by Bon Jovi. I had never heard it before. Haven’t been much of a Bon Jovi fan since I was 11. But I listened to every word then went to find the lyrics. I don’t know if it was a fluke and it somehow got hit and I didn’t see it, or if it was a sign, but it was definitely very strange. I wondered for a second if Jas was here.

You can hear the song here, and the lyrics are below. (If I did it right)
We Weren’t Born To Follow

We Weren’t Born To Follow Lyrics

This one goes out to the man who mines for miracles
This one goes out the ones in need
This one goes out the sinner and the cynical
This ain’t about no apology
This road was paved by the hopeless and the hungry
This road was paved by the winds of change
Walking beside the guilty and the innocent
How will you raise your hand when they call your name?

Yea, Yea, Yea,
We Weren’t born to follow
Come on and get up off your knees
When life is a bitter pill to swallow
You gotta hold on to what you believe
Believe that the sun will shine tomorrow
And that your saints and sinners bleed
We weren’t born to follow
You gotta stand up for what you believe
Let me hear you say
Yea, Yea, Yea, ooooohhh,, Yea

This ones about anyone who does it differently
This ones about the one who cusses and spits
This ain’t about our living in a fantasy
This ain’t about giving up or giving in

Yea, Yea, Yea,
We Weren’t born to follow
Come on and get up off your knees
When life is a bitter pill to swallow
You gotta hold on to what you believe
Believe that the sun will shine tomorrow
And that your saints and sinners bleed
We weren’t born to follow
You gotta stand up for what you believe
Let me hear you say
Yea, Yea, Yea, ooooohhh,, Yea

Let me hear you say
Yea, Yea, Yea, oooohhhhh, Yea
http://www.elyricsworld.com/we_weren’t_born_to_follow_lyrics_bon_jovi.html

“Guitar”


Yea, Yea, Yea,
We Weren’t born to follow
Come on and get up off your knees
When life is a bitter pill to swallow
You gotta hold on to what you believe
Believe that the sun will shine tomorrow
And that your saints and sinners bleed
We weren’t born to follow
You gotta stand up for what you believe
Let me hear you say
Yea, Yea, Yea, ooooohhh,, Yea

goosebump material on that one...wow! I got some for ya too, Trish. I texted this to Matt last night, it was weirdly coincidental. Anthony (for those who don’t know, he’s another one of our cousins), me, Mallory (Ant’s g/f) & Steven (my b/f) were sitting at a wing place last night discussing what we wanted to do for Labor Day (today). We were kicking around going to Gennie Springs and Weeki Wachee for drifting down the spring water. Then our conversation switched to family and how we all used to be so close & how we missed that & because of stupid things (i.e. distance, money issues, etc.). We started talking about Jason and immediately we decided we were going back to Rainbow Springs to have some family-ish fun & I texted Trish, Matt, Mike & Aunt Gail to see if they could (albeit last minute...literally at like 10PM or so) go too. Crazy-weird-coincidentaly moment coming here: at the EXACT moment that Matt & Trish texted me back, Ant’s cell phone rang from a friend calling...and get this: Ant’s ring tone was SUPER MARIO BROTHERS from Nintendo! Ant was never told that Jason had this ring tone, I remember Matt/Mike had recorded this ring tone for him & it totally stopped me in mid-conversation & immediately shot goosebumps all up & down my body. Anthony couldn’t believe it either! I sincerely believe, with all my heart & soul, that Jason is telling all of us that he is still here...never truly left us...and giving us signs to say "hello." I literally texted Matt back this stuff...just HAD to share it! We L-O-V-E you Jason!

it could be a sign. that kinda crazy.
it could be jason trying to tell us something.

when trish told me about this happening i knew she had to post it. It gave me goodebumps. Every time somehting like this happens there is always either a message in the words of a song, like tricia’s experience, or the one you just shared jan. Sorry for not texting back. I meant to soon as I had a minute. Still sorting through all Jason’s things.

Did Dalyce ever post about her dream? If not, I think you should Dal.

What’s even crazier is... The only reason that song is playing on Citrus 95.3 is because of me.

Last Monday during our music meeting, I brought up that the new Bon Jovi was released and I thought we should be playing it since it debuted pretty high on the charts and my boss and the other guy who is part of the meeting hated it but I argued and argued my point, explaining that they’re the only band who has had continued success since the hair band days. From Runaway, to Livin’ On a Prayer, Wanted Dead or Alive to It’s My Life, Who Says You Can’t Go Home, and now this.

They absolutely hated the song but I kept arguing for it, I kept saying it was a hit and I won the battle and we added it to our playlist and it’s been in rotation since Friday. If it wasn’t for me working here, that song would not even be playing on the radio.

And the weirdest part is, part of the reason I was pushing it so hard was because despite all the hard ass music Jason was into, he actually had A LOT of Bon Jovi on his iPod. So in my mind, I was pushing a "Jason" song. I’ve been listening to all the music from his actual iPod the past few weeks and he only had about 200 songs, but he has:

Livin’ On a Prayer
You Give Love a Bad Name
It’s My Life
Wanted Dead or Alive



Considering what kinda (bad ass and very heavy) music he was into, these songs are REALLY out of place and every time one of these songs would start playing off his iPod in the car I’d start laughing and be like "wtf I didn’t know he liked Bon Jovi"

Lastly - Jason had Guitar Hero 5 preordered. The last time I saw him, I gave him the Game Spot gift card I owed him for his birthday. Well he never had a chance to use it... I guess he planned on using it to get Guitar Hero 5. So that’s exactly what I put it towards... and when it came out on Tuesday I went and picked it up and paid for the rest of it (which wasn’t much because he only put 10 dollars down >:O lol)

So few days later I’m playing the game and I get to a song I didn’t even know was in the game "Bon Jovi - You Give Love a Bad Name."

And this was like, right after I realized he had all these Bon Jovi songs on his iPod so I really felt like I was playing this song for Jason because I knew he was really looking forward to playing that song. You always look forward to playing the songs you know in those games because half you’ve never heard of before and it’s always the most fun playing songs you know and like.

So with all that happening, and then to come on the group this morning and see there’s a post about the Bon Jovi song that I fought tooth and nail to get played on our station and to see what happened with it... Is just plain freakin crazy.

Not to mention these small personal connections I’ve had with Jason and Bon Jovi the past week... I think I even mentioned to Ashley how weird it was Jason was into Bon Jovi. And now all this... very, very weird.

Small Footnote: Not sure if I made this clear or not but the station that played the song through Trish’s receiver was my station and the song wouldn’t even be playing if I didn’t fight for it on Monday. So weird to see this happened!

Just wanted to make sure that crazy fact was clear! Just a bit creepy.

Holy crap!!! That does make it even weirder. I thought about it all night replaying it in my head and I really don’t think anyone hit it. I know no one was near the receiver, so the only possibility was the remote but the dog would have had to hit the right button on the remote and she doesn’t jump up there. All too coincidental to be nothing.

I only knew you from working at winndixie. It seemed as though ever time I shopped you were there working always smiling and making jokes. It always was nice to see your face and talking with you you will be missed.

every time i go to make an announcement, i can’t help but think of what i said almost every night i closed: "Jason, Red Line, please." i’d make jokes, or tell you something a customer did that i thought was odd or funny.

Then you got your iPhone with that stupid shotgun. i thought it was the silliest thing, but you loved showing it off.

i remember going to the park after work and just sitting there, looking up at the stars, talking about family, about how much work sucked, and anything else we could think of.

He loved the shotgun app, and Pocket God.

i still laugh at the night he brought his new iphone into hungry howies he was soo excited i think he showed me every app on it !

I know when I worked there, and I did the daily walk from the front doors, down isle 11 **At the time** to the backroom to punch in and down to the meat dept I seen Jason everytime!! Always had a smile on his face, and always went out of his way to say hello... When he came back to the meat dept to give me a go back, damage product, or even get a price of a turkey, he would always have a smile... No matter what.

thanks for that..

he always did have a smile.

It is hard for me to even go in Winn Dixie. I have, but it feels very weird. Even though he hadn’t worked in the Beverly Hills store for a little while it is still weird. Allie always asked if Uncle Jason was working when we went to that store. She’d get excited when she saw him and then play shy. In the end he always got "five" though.

i remember jason doing that when you guys where in winn dixie. when we where hanging out it was so cute.. great times.