Does anyone share my disillusionment with ageing? Although experiencing a share of tragedies I have been personally fortunate, which enabled me to be the family rock. Inevitably this has come to an end. Pains that many people have suffered for years have arrived. Memory loss is an awful experience and every day deterioration manifests itself in relentless ways. Fortunately the internet gives careful comfort and prevents repeated visits to the doctor. I am grateful for for being given the chance to grow old, but selfishly worry about the last scene of the last act.
I think we all think like that Jim, once we get to around retirement age, especially if we start suffering physical ailments and memory loss... so you're not alone by any stretch of the imagination...
Yeah, that last scene of the last act has been playing around in my mind. Then so has a brother in law's comment who asks when learning of a family members or a friends death, did he die well? Well, of course, I hope to delay that last scene and when it arrives, I hope to give it all I've got and make that passage while asleep. Meanwhile, would anyone care to dance?
It is something that happens to all of us, to all the human race. I don't think it hurts at all to consider what is coming and to realize all who have gone before us have experienced this scene. After all diying is the final act of life.
I think most of us share this sentiment, Jim. As a young person, I feared death. Seems that as the years have passed, I don't fear death but I do fear dying. I hope the transition is not painful or undignified. Sometimes it weighs on my mind but thankfully not too often.
Of course, at my advance age, I am aware that this can occur at any time, but I don't entertain the thoughts of dying very much. I do worry a bit about not being able to walk around and take care of myself as time marches on. So, I take it one day at a time. I am fairly comfortable in my dotage and have a good time whenever I am given the opportunity to party a bit. I guess I'll never get over that stage. In my mind, I am still rather youthful. Helps a lot.
Thanks for your comments. Like you say, dying is not an issue, in fact I find comfort in not having to worry about the long-term future. Unnecessarily worrying is a burden for most people. This was brought home by policeman giving an interview on television. He had been blinded in a crash while chasing an offender. His first thought was, 'How am I going to finish painting my house.)