When one is old, one feels as if one is the same person that one has always
been. You get more symptoms and people may treat you differently, but you don't
feel like an old person. When you're old, especially if you're a woman, people
tend to be patronizing and they treat you as if you're a child, not like you've
accumulated wisdom along with your years. If you have obvious disabilities,
this is even more worse.
Miriam
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Sent: Monday, March 29, 2021 10:07 PM
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Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: Much to deal with today.
Re: [blind-democracy] Re: Much to deal with today.
Well it does seem like an old age, but I got too thinking about that. My mother
was almost exactly 21 years older than me. I was born five days after her
twenty-first birthday. So I thought about what was happening when she was the
same age that I am now. Good grief, that was the year 2000. It was right in the
middle of the election campaign of that year that was taking up so much of my
attention. Honestly, it seems like current events to me.
Well, it
will be just that long until I am at the age she was today when she died and I
expect it will seem to be even shorter than the last 21 years. I am reminded of
a Facebook post I saw a few days ago. It said, "it's really weird being the
same age as old people." I understand the sentiment.
Considering how much
time it seems has passed it feels like I just got through being a teenager. I
don't feel like an old person. But that twenty-one years until I am the age of
my mother I am sure will pass really quickly for me and, frankly, I doubt that
I will get that far. At least, when she was the age I am now back in the year
2000 her health was a lot better than mine is right now.
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Charles Bukowski “For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are
answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big
answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and
discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum. I
am my own god. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and
our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war.
We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will
tremble to take us.” ― Charles Bukowski On 3/29/2021 9:18 PM, Carl Jarvis wrote:
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That's hard news, Roger. When my grandma Ludwig died my older sister said to
our mother, "Well, she was 92." "She was still my mother,"
mother said.
When my mother's time came, she died of cancer at the age of 84. At the time it
seemed like an old age...but now I will be 85 next month.
It's never the right time.
My thoughts are with you.
Carl Jarvis
On 3/29/21, Roger Loran Bailey
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I suppose this is neither here nor there to you guys, but I am mentioning it
because it is strongly on my mind. It is on my mind because I have spent all
day dealing with the aftermath. My mother died this morning. It was not with a
lot of warning either. It was six days after she entered the hospital and right
up until last night everyone was expecting that she would be discharged at any
time.
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Charles Bukowski “For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are
answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big
answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and
discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum. I
am my own god. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and
our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We
are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will
tremble to take us.” ― Charles Bukowski
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Charles Bukowski “For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are
answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big
answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and
discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum. I
am my own god. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and
our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We
are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will
tremble to take us.” ― Charles Bukowski