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12-08-2022, 12:58 AM
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Re: Suicide by Bulldozer
The older I get, the more my perspective changes on this issue. Some people have just "outgrown" life When you're young the world is pregnant with countless new possibilities and everything seems vivid and vibrant. You live, learn, play, love, travel, punch out a couple of kids and raise them, try every drug on the market, cross everything off your bucket list. After fifty or so years on this planet there are very few surprises left and the world gradually becomes a weary prison in shades of gray and black where everything inevitably repeats itself over and over again. Where do you go from there? Onward to slowly watch as your beauty fades and your semper fi bones and muscles break apart like so much kindling? To see your loved ones and favorite celebrities die one by one and live among a new generation that now consider you and the things you remember with fond memories as corny and antiquated? Don't get me wrong, there are many old people who cling tenaciously to life, who hang out with their friends and family, enjoy seeing their grandchildren and great grandchildren growing up; whose professional and recreational interests lend them an eternity of new things to explore.....but not everyone is like that As a kid, I remember being struck by a refrigerator magnet that read "Old age isn't for quitters" but I think a more appropriate adage should be "Old age isn't for EVERYONE". |