Thank you Sailor, for sharing your experience on this... awkward subject.
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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve
Well there you go. I didn't try, but at one point I thought about it long and hard. Then my conclusion was that something cool might happen tomorrow. Something cool did happen, but it didn't last.
I realized years later that the reality was that I, too, was a coward. I don't know what waits on the other side, if anything, and I'm in no hurry to find out. In fact I would rather it not come whenever it does. But it will.
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I stopped reading right there.
That is the reason i wanna become old: i am not even curious any more to see what is around the corner. Avoid pain and suffering. avoid fear, being scared and stuff.
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all this is in stark contradiction to what i lived yesterday
-fight with gf, arguments, b**ching... explanations, points of View, what do you need / what do I need, are we gonna stay together or we gonna split...
- sports session to make up the missed time over the last 4 weeks.
and all i lived TOday, mere hours ago:
-drove out into the green valleys, me, GF, 2 dogs
-found us a spot near a river
-had fun in the water (25°C/ around 80°F+ sunshine)
-ate a delicious apple
-carefully gave my dog a go at swimming holding him by his belly, and letting him go
-enjoy dogs reaction, as he wanted to have another go at it.
- home made hamburger and french fries, green salad with red onion rings and tomatoes.
so cool stuff happens!
it is a weekend that leaves me satisfied and hungry for more of the same.
...but in 60 years i will most likely be gone, and all of this completely irrelevant.
It will be irrelevant two weeks from now.
it never HAS BEEN relevant for anyone but the two of us and our dogs.
be glad for the stuff you have and the good times you live in... in theory a good point of View.
It is an incomplete piece of advice, to put you into relation with the elements around you that might not fare so well.
It clouds your mind with happyness.
...but it is not the answer
to a few BIG questions in life.
and without those answered to my satisfaction, there is little drive to make more cool stuff happen, cool stuff on a large scale.