You guys gotta get a grip.
Am in the 'Ole Coots Club' for sure. I don't give a hoot...lol.
When you get old, family & friends are a blessing.
Am old, but still spend most of my time with younger folks. I have 4 grandchildren in college. Love figuring them out and love all of them laughing at me.
I have several local trapping and calling friends that are in their 20's & 30's and enjoy spending time with them.
Nowadays, when I purchase something....I know it comes with a life time guarantee...lol
I consider all the members on this site friends.
Good friends are like quilts-they age with you, yet never lose their warmth.
I have seen too many dear friends leave this world, too soon; before they understood the great freedom that comes with aging.
Whose business is it, if I choose to read, or play on the computer, until 4 AM, or sleep until noon? I will dance with myself to those wonderful tunes of the 50s & 60s and if I, at the same time, wish to weep over a lost love, I will.
I know I am sometimes forgetful. But there again, some of life is just as well forgotten. And, eventually, I remember the important things.
Sure, over the years, my heart has been broken. How can your heart not break, when you lose a loved one, or when a child suffers or a pet dies? But broken hearts are what give us strength, and understanding, and compassion.
I am so blessed to have lived long enough to have my hair turn gray, and to have my youthful laughs be forever etched into deep grooves on my face. So many have never laughed, and so many have died before their hair could turn silver.
As you get older, it is easier to be positive. You care less about what other people think. I don't question myself anymore. I've even earned the right to be wrong.
I like being old. It has set me free. I like the person I have become. I am not going to live forever, but while I am still here, I will not waste time lamenting what could have been, or worrying about what will be. I smoke a cigar any time I feel like it.
May our friendship never come apart
especially when it's straight from the heart
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