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IGNORING REALITY
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IGNORING REALITY We all have our "good old days" tucked away inside our hearts, and we return to them in daydreams. If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you're old. I look forward to growing old and wise and audacious. I wouldn't have turned out the way I did if I didn't have all those old-fashioned values to rebel against. You don't have to be old in America to say of a world you lived in: That world is gone. My greatest enemy is reality. I have fought it successfully for thirty years. If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead. Change excites me. I am in my fifties. It's a time in life when the mind catches up with the body. I was forced to live far beyond my years when I was young, now I have reversed the order and I intend to remain young indefinitely. The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again, I'd make the mistakes, only sooner. What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death. The invention of the was a mistake. Once you identify a period of life in which people get to stay out late, but don't have to pay taxes....naturally, nobody wants to live any other way. There are only two things that a will share willingly....communicable diseases and his mother's age. The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that outlasts it. Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend. It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting. You're never too big or too old for a hug. |
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2/23/2008 8:24 am |
We lived in a time when things that were important are no longer important.HUG
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Consider yourself hugged. Consider these monuments to man's stupidity like bridges and big buildings that will be destroyed in a few hundred years and how they pale in comparison to nature's monuments like the grand canyon. Sometime in the future the solar system we live in will be gone. The only thing that will survive is in the souls of men and women of our ancestors. Good deeds, knowledge, values in our children, and the quality of our souls are the only real things we can leave behind.
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2/23/2008 11:06 am |
Bonnie--You guys sure are depressing today--I keep hoping there is something to live for tomorrow~~ But of course you still get the Warm Hug-It is nearly all I have left to give that the Politicians & Insurance Companies haven't already taken!! Be Safe/Warm Hug--Bill I came into this world with nothing, and I have most of it left~~
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Good post although I don't agree with all of it. We all have memories of our past some good and some not so good that we can choose to remember or forget. Yes, there are times that I go back in my past and think of the good times I've had. But I also go back as a reminder of what I could of done differently. We all make mistakes and hopefully we learn from them. Where I disagree with you is about children. I do feel that if a child has a good relationship with there parents then they will share more than communicable diseases and his mother's age. I have seen it and felt it myself not only with my parents but with others who have children as well( this is where I disagree with you). I agree that for most part change does excite me but not always. As I grow older the changes I see and have experience not only excite me but stimulate the mind as well. We shouldn't feel bad about growing older. I do feel that I'm like a fine bottle of wine as I get older I get better. I look around me and see many people young and old and they all to a degree excite me. The only people that don't are those who don't have a young heart. Trying to stay young and busy I believe is part of the key to being happy and staying younger mentally. I once read in a post by a woman that said I don't care how young you are just as long as you act old and I don't care how old you are just as long as you act young. If you think about it she was right on the mark with what she said. Hugs, John  We have two lives, and the second begins when we realise we have only one - Confucious
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Good Morning Bonnie, I loved all of these! Many of them are simply riminders that life should be simple...rather than as complicated as we tend to make it! I always enjoy reading your postings!! Keep them coming Sweetie! Hugs, Tom
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Reality is a buzz-kill. It is like sky diving without a parachute. You can flap your arms all you like but you are still going to come to a sudden stop.    The perversity of the universe is unbounded.
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I agree with this post, Bonnie. I especially like the one about doing the mistakes earlier. I sure don't regret them and they helped make me who I am.
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The greates legacy we can leave to the future is our children, and that is no small thing.
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