Dropping like flies....
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True. Every couple of weeks I hear of a buddy or classmates that have passed over the years.
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It's more concerning when your Siblings are gone....
I got to pass this on.......
8 yrs ago my dad died, my middle granddaughter was 7 at the time. During the funeral she thought she should sit next to me.
It was a hard day on me and during the service she kept patting my leg. Once it was over she looked me dead in the eye and said ( pops the older you get the more dead people you will know )
A 7 year old mind at work
Lol , I could not help but grin and chuckle and give her a hug.
8 yrs ago my dad died, my middle granddaughter was 7 at the time. During the funeral she thought she should sit next to me.
It was a hard day on me and during the service she kept patting my leg. Once it was over she looked me dead in the eye and said ( pops the older you get the more dead people you will know )
A 7 year old mind at work
Lol , I could not help but grin and chuckle and give her a hug.
I had this conversation with my wife a few days ago. Remember all those old people we looked at when we walked on by them thinking please get out of my way, It's us now. Now that's scary!
I've been experiencing the same here lately. Seems I now know more in the cemetery than alive! Just had a friend my age die and a couple weeks ago another friend 56 yrs old die. Just a couple days ago I celebrated my sons birthday also at the cemetery. He would be 41 now, but died tragically in an accident not of his making 21 years ago. ruffcut
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That's why we have to go out there and burn rubber. Tomorrow might come and it might not, so we have to enjoy today.
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Lost several school mates to Viet Nam....and several more thinking they know how to drive an ill handling 'performance' car.
And sorry about your son and all.....prayer goes out to you....
We're not supposed to bury our children, that's for sure but we all know how that can go. So far my kids are still around but I lost 10 relatives within a 3 year span starting in 98 with my dad being the one to start things rolling then the friends continued on with that. Now there's not a whole lot of friends in my phone book anymore and recently turned away from one that was an asshole before but got a lot worse as the years went by and well, I got tired of it. Tried to steer him back on a better course but he figured he like being an ahole more.....
And sorry about your son and all.....prayer goes out to you....
I saw this on the news the other day. Think about it, you're so fragile that you're probably confined to a nursing home, all your siblings are dead, your friends are dead, your spouse is dead, possibly some of your kids are dead and everyone else you knew is dead. Funk that!
World’s oldest man dies in Spain at 112, weeks shy of 113th birthday
https://www.foxla.com/news/worlds-oldest-man-dies-in-spain-at-112-weeks-shy-of-113th-birthday
World’s oldest man dies in Spain at 112, weeks shy of 113th birthday
https://www.foxla.com/news/worlds-oldest-man-dies-in-spain-at-112-weeks-shy-of-113th-birthday
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Betty White was within a few weeks of 100 and she had lots of friends. If you make it to 70 and still feel half way good, you might have a different view of living to 85 or more....
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Death & taxes, especially now...
2 things you can count on, knowing it will happen
2 things you can count on, knowing it will happen
You're right! I'm approaching 71 and doing pretty good for the shape I'm in and 85 is looking good to me if I can keep doing what I want! ruffcut
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Yeah, I got a little over 3 months to go before hitting 71 too.
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I don’t really like talking about it much but I’ve seen a lot of death in my life from a very early age on. My parents were very big on family and extended family. It seemed we had lots of Uncles and Aunts that weren’t really blood relatives. We didn’t know and really didn’t care - they were just family to us. I really don’t know if most parents did this sort of thing - but we went to many, many funerals as youngsters. It wasn’t at all unusual to me to see someone in a coffin when I was a little kid. I also don’t ever believe we had a sitter for anything. Maybe because there was nine of us they just had to bring us wherever they went. All those people plus our real relatives died off and we went to every funeral. There was that then some tragic deaths around high school years. Then I also lost 3 brothers way before their time. Two of them were my best friends and in their early 30’s. One two years younger, the other 2 years older. Then of course the parents and now it’s friends getting slowly picked off each year. Just lost my very first friend from kindergarten about a month ago. I also don’t know if it’s just me but it seems very very difficult to make new friends when you get a bit older in life. I guess what this has taught me is life is indeed precious and along with that so are friends and family. For the most part it’s always been easier for me to enjoy and get along with friends more so than family. Friends are just that friends, non judgmental people that you can talk about things with and share what you likeLy may not want to with your own family. And also enjoy good times and adventures with. As you climb in years they get fewer and fewer and moving around during your prime years doesn’t help things in that area. They’re scattered all over the country. My best and closest friends have always been and still are the guys and gals I grew up with. I’ve done the best I could to keep in touch and go back up to MN a couple times a year and make the rounds. I’ve been thinking a lot about this stuff lately as we see so many Celebs in the obits - Hold on to what you have because like land God doesn’t seem to be making much more of it. My wish for everyone is good health, prosperity and remember to cultivate your relationships with both friends and family. We just never know when God will call our number or theirs.
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