"I'm yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet raised to an alarming extent by Hollywood and Madison Avenue, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you're old and weak!" - Calvin, "Calvin & Hobbes"
Posts: 18023 | Location: Sonoma County, CA | Registered: April 09, 2004
Near a time when I had loss of my own, I became aware of a line in the Indiana Jones series after Indy's father passes (Connery). The sidekick says to Indy something like..
"We're at the point in our lives when the Good Lord stops giving us things, and begins to take them away."
Had never even noted the line when watching the movie in the past, but now I'll always remember it. (misquoted or not. edits welcome)
------------------ The plural of anecdote is not data. -Frank Kotsonis
Posts: 2004 | Location: Berks Co PA | Registered: December 20, 2006
Like my mother did, I'm getting to an age, where I'm losing my friends. Men seem to have fewer close friends than women so it's tough, when you lose one and I've lost almost all of mine. I guess it beats them losing me but still tough.
Posts: 2559 | Location: Central Virginia | Registered: July 20, 2015
I actually look forward to death. Death is life's way of telling you it's time for you to stop living.
Yes, often the death of someone we like or love is very inconvenient; there's never a good time for these things.
If I knew I was going to live forever in the state I'm in, I would just go ahead and kill myself.
"It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946.
Posts: 19645 | Location: The Free State of Arizona - Ditat Deus | Registered: March 24, 2011
Yep, you know it's for real. When you go to visit your friends. And they have turned to cold hard upright stone or flat metal plates planted in the green green grass.
Posts: 4409 | Location: White City, Florida | Registered: January 11, 2009
“Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.” ― Ronald Reagan
Retired old fart
Posts: 6483 | Location: Near the Beaverdam in VA | Registered: February 13, 2005
At least once a year it seems I hear about another person I knew growing up, or had worked with has passed.
Frankly, I'm surprised I've outlived so many of them. Still, the Good Lord does seem to be "taking things away" as I age. Don't get me wrong, I'm still thrilled to be on this side of the sod!
The first research vessel crew I was captain over in the 1990's have all (8) died within the past 5 years of various causes, cancer being the most prevalent cause. It sucks.
MOO means NO! Be the comet!
Posts: 2769 | Location: The Tidewater. VCOA. | Registered: June 24, 2009
Originally posted by dedguy: I read somewhere that the leading cause of death is birth.
My understanding is that it's Oxygen that actually kills us. We are addicted to a chemical that actually causes Rust to form in our blood and also causes all those nasty free radicals that slowly eat away at out insides.
I've stopped counting.
Posts: 5643 | Location: Michigan | Registered: November 07, 2008
