Aging

[FuzzyAce]

Tooted good a few hours ago

They brought over chili?

 

[dignlivn]

Don't blink,
I'm turning 69 this summer.
It goes real fast.
Still trying to play when the RA lets me.
One day at a time, brothers.
Keep the faith.
Tele time for now.

 

[la szum]

Thanks! Funny story on this theme. I have a friend who is about 15 years older than me. He had a kid at 50 and I use to give him all kinds of shit about it trying to get a rise out of him. Asking him things like how's he going to feel the first time he is at a park with his daughter and one of her little friends comes up and asks if he is her grandpa? Of course he took great joy in returning the favor when I had a kid at 50

Hahaha! Tempting Fate is always a risky maneuver!


Congrats again on the Daughter, Dad! Nothing brings joy and fulfillment (and ungodly levels of stress!!) like children.

 

[la szum]

I just want to say thank you to everyone who has responded in this thread. The kindness and willingness to be real means a lot to me. It's more common to get something not so gentle on the interwebs. Thanks to each of you.

Personally speaking, I try to be VERY intentional about bringing a level of realness and genuine humanity to counter all the nonsense on the
Internet. I am thinking it may be a lost cause, though.




To all those people and portions of the world that just want to use us up and toss us away, or only want us to serve their
narcissistic inclinations, or worse be some downtrodden soul they can kick at their leisure, the Sanctity of The Middle

Finger is always armed and ready to fly!!

Never be ashamed to use it. It was given to us for a reason.

 

[la szum]

While we are at the water cool and reminiscing, It got me remembering things from my youth. So there i was in the early 90s in college and while everyone my age was into grunge and alternative and new music, i fell off that roller coaster and got into 70s music and was it neck deep discovering the wonders to be found on the records of Steely Dan, Doobie Bros, Eagles and so on. And I dressed like I was teleported from a geasy spoon in the 70s into the 90s. And there was this super cute and super hot skinhead alternative chick who was crazy about the chilli peppers who would go around and pick on me and bully me all the time for the way i looked. I think I looked like Skunk in the 70s..

ahh.. good times.. :-)

Don't think too much about the past. It is gone and done with. I feel old but I also feel alive and better than ever. I don't give a shit and rarely if ever anything anymore. Nothing gets to me. My only real stresses are dealing and caring for my aging parents and the uncertainty of what to do and how long this will last and go on for.

Love it!

Chicks were always meaner than guys back in the day. And ruthless! I could get
in a fistfight with a guy and two days later we are hanging out.

Great advice on not looking back. At least in anger.

I am grateful for the memories. Warts, wounds, wonders, and all.



I feel like after having survived so much these days there is a serenity about shit hitting
the fan. It all washes off.

 

[la szum]

A friend I've known since Jr. High died this week. He almost made it to 40. We were both part of the spray paint/skateboard/Jackass wannabe crew in high-school, and reconnected after we graduated in the punk party scene.

After we both settled down, he and his wife taught at the high school my son went to while their son was enrolled in my preschool.

We both still skateboarded on through adulthood and he was also a Mauy Thai fighter. The last time we skated together I ended up falling, landing in the splits, royally fucking my ankle and didn't fully recover for 2 years. Needless to say, my friends and I aren't known for picking the safest of activities.

But the cause of his death? Of all things?

Slip and fall in the shower.

Wut? How is that even possible?

Sorry. That's just brutal.