Just life happens and regardless of age, you realize it is coming.

What do you, how do u live?

Context: I'm old and my great-grandmother asked me the same question when she was my age now.

You see, she freaked me out with that question.

I have absolutely no idea what you're asking.

quote:

Swong Song

da fuq is that?


Swong Song
Hit the bong.
Won't be long
'Til we're all gong.

Until then
Just stay strong.
Do your best
To get along

I don't think the term means what you think it means, LS1 GTO: Swan Song

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Swan Song

the last act or manifestation of someone or something; farewell appearance:
This building turned out to be the swan song of Victorian architecture.

It's not something you meet. It's your or something's last act--and then only, properly speaking, a "swan song" if that last act is somehow notable.

I think he means Swan Song, or a person's final performance or part of their life - normally when they've resigned themselves to the approach of death.

From the myth that a swan is mute or voiceless all it's life, only singing when it is about to die.

ETA: Ensigmatic types faster than me

There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer. -Gertrude Stein

Nah, really.. a question

Mike, you are after your 55’s.

We haved lived a lot of life

And life is finite in this world, right?

I've been living my life all along knowing my life is finite. I remember as a young boy, maybe 10, I thought I'd never live to be 50. 50 seemed like way old to me.

I've been prepared to die for a long while. I became even more comfortable with the idea when I reached a financial point that my wife would have resources to live on should I die before her.

Since 1979, as a sailor out in the middle of the Indian Ocean, I've lived my life as if there was a God and that I'll go to heaven when I die because I believe Jesus died as payment for my sins. If that turns out to not be the case, I can live with that or, more appropriately, die with that.

Can we get Bendable to come translate?

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Originally posted by Rey HRH:
I've been living my life all along knowing my life is finite. I remember as a young boy, maybe 10, I thought I'd never live to be 50. 50 seemed like way old to me.

I've been prepared to die for a long while.

I could have made that exact statement. Since I am a couple of decades past 50 I just accept I am in the bonus round.

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Originally posted by LS1 GTO:
And life is finite in this world, right?

No human ever knew the answer to that question.

My own experience hints there is more, but I do not know.

quote:

Originally posted by LS1 GTO:
And life is finite in this world, right?

In this world, yes, but this world is not all there is.

Is everything OK? Is this philosophical, or is something going on with you?

So, it is Swan Song? You don’t “meet it,” you sing it; try to make it good.

I have long stated that the magic age is 70. Die before then, it is a tragedy, "but he was so young!" After 70 it's, "well, he had a pretty good run."

Facing one's demise isn't easy, especially when a doctor (or whoever) gives a convincing deadline (ho ho). However, the bare fact of the matter is that we are all dying, just some of us faster than others, and the sooner you come to that realization, the more time you have to enjoy life before it ends. Might as well go out singing your swan song or whatever rather than feeling sorry for yourself, and crying in your beer.

Well it's the swong old song, with a different meaning since you've been gong...

(With apologies to the esteemed poet laureate of our times, Sisqo...)

*ahem*

He had posts like a fence, fence, fence
Rambling like what, huh, what
All night long
Let me see that swong

Baby... That swong, sw-swong, swong, swong
I like it when the post goes (huh what huh what)
Baby, make the forum go (huh what huh what)
That swong, sw-swong, swong, swong

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Originally posted by Sig2340:

quote:

Originally posted by LS1 GTO:
And life is finite in this world, right?

No human ever knew the answer to that question.

My own experience hints there is more, but I do not know.

(Emphasis mine) This statement sums it up for me.

I know most folks have unshakeable beliefs on the subject and I'm sure that's very comforting, but I'm firmly in the Doubting Thomas camp. I hope there's more, but I need proof.