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Just An Old Fashioned Life Rant
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Just An Old Fashioned Life Rant |
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icebox Member Elite
since 2003-05-03
Posts 4383in the shadows 
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I am becoming cold hearted in old age, no sense of urgency to turn another page; when I have already figured out the plot of any book I stop reading, somewhere in the middle; to me, it is no different from letting telephones ring without the boiling over need to pick them up. What is with that anyway? If I have something I am compelled to say, then I will find a way to pass the thought along, or if someone has some thought to share with me I'm sure they find a way to get their point across; not getting back an answer to an email, in fifteen minutes or less, should not be an Earth shaking loss, should not cause a sane mind to crack; or walking out of movies before the second act just because the movies sucks, and no force on earth could pull me back, or disappearing without a thought of some goodbye... OK that one's different...maybe, another time I will try to look at that again, but my point is I refuse to be a ball within an old pinball machine, bouncing without force of will off every bumper ledge and sill until my play's exhausted and I drop down in a hole. Look, it isn't arrogance, though I know it easily can be taken so, but arrogance always, always, always is the outward shell built from insecurity inside, though the reverse is not always true; I have never denied that I have my moments when I am less secure, but that is not the point, I am sure there is a reason we have to live so many times, maybe it's simple and we just forget how many ways the verse of life can rhyme. ©2004 by icebox |
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iliana Member Patricius
since 2003-12-05
Posts 13434USA |
"I am sure there is a reason we have to live so many times, maybe it's simple and we just forget how many ways the verse of life can rhyme." Hmmmmmmmm....makes me think. Not much of a comment for now -- I pointed out my favorite part, but that analogy of the ping pong machine....wow.... |
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Honeybunch Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-29
Posts 7115South Africa |
Icebox, There are so many ways we can be, so many thoughts we can think, and I guess somewhere, sometime, it's just a matter of choice. |
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steavenr Member Elite
since 2003-11-17
Posts 4058 |
Man, can I relate to this...my kids hate watching a video with me because it just doesn't matter...if I have grown weary with the plot line or whatever, I don't mind walking away in the middle, just before the end, or whenever...I think life gets that ways as we grow older...we reset our priorities according to the time we perceive we have left...with lesser and lesser concern for what others may think... nice, thought-provoking write... |
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passing shadows Member Empyrean
since 1999-08-26
Posts 45577displaced |
age does that to people...I'm getting old fast |
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iliana Member Patricius
since 2003-12-05
Posts 13434USA |
Icebox -- I'm still pondering..... Dixie & Steavnr -- I think age has something to do with this, but I think it's something else, as well.....the overflow of information....the ease of discovery.....I'm still thinking about this one. Icebox --  |
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jwesley Member Rara Avis
since 2000-04-30
Posts 7563Spring, Texas |
I can only see one possible response to this one Icebox . . . Amen brother . . . A M E N! jwesley |
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Martie
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California |
icebox "I am becoming cold hearted in old age," You are not cold hearted!  |
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Soleil Noir Senior Member
since 2001-12-19
Posts 688USA |
maybe it's simple and we just forget how many ways the verse of life can rhyme. ~*~ Maybe so. Thank you, Sir. |
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Susan Caldwell Member Rara Avis
since 2002-12-27
Posts 8348Florida |
"I am sure there is a reason we have to live so many times, maybe it's simple and we just forget how many ways the verse of life can rhyme" hmmmmmm....maybe just to get it right, or to help someone else get it right.  "cast me gently into the morning, for the night has been unkind" |
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time prophet Member
since 2003-07-30
Posts 371In New Zealand Amongst the Ancient Trees |
"I am becoming cold hearted in old age, no sense of urgency to turn another page;" That I can relate to. With age nothing is that urgent anymore. |
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latearrival Member Ascendant
since 2003-03-21
Posts 5499Florida |
"but my point is I refuse to be a ball within an old pinball machine, bouncing without force of will off every bumper ledge and sill until my play's exhausted and I drop down in a hole". Quite an analogy, as Jo said. I love it. This whole post is so good. I lived my whole marriage to a man like this and I had nothing but respect and love for him in the end. Granted it took a life time to learn to understand and you have just helped me more. Thanks "Late" |
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