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e_m_k

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Feb 16, 2010 16:03

My Great Aunt Jane passed away recently. My Dad's Father, who is my last living Grandparent and is currently using my Dad's basement as an apartment, was her older brother by a few years. He's now in his nineties, but still pretty coherent, healthy and well-functioning. I know this will be difficult for him, but my Great Aunt has been mentally ( Read more... )

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john1082 February 17 2010, 01:59:57 UTC

We must grow older, but we need not grow up. I can't help you with relationships - my cat hissed at me today - but you work with extremely talented people every day and you're in a profession where expression makes everything that you do special.

Being thirty isn't bad - beats the hell out of fifty!

kishenehn February 17 2010, 03:15:28 UTC

Believe me, you're saying things that are completely universal. I think about them often, particularly at milestone points at my life ... and I thought about them especially when my mom died a couple of years ago.

The thoughts never go away, but somehow they get a little easier to live with ... most of the time, anyway. This sounds more depressing and fatalistic than it is, but over time we come to accept the brevity and the unfairness of life.

gnat February 22 2010, 18:33:57 UTC

I think I might know where you're coming from; kind of like being trapped and you're the keeper of the key to your own salvation and the only real consequence of setting yourself free is to succeed but all you end up doing is staring at yourself, your key, your salvation. And you fall back to what you know because what you know has become what you do but what you do isn't all of who you are and there's a crisis of conscience between doing what you need to do to stay true to yourself - to be authentic, to become who you know yourself to be - and what you do to keep yourself afloat which inevitably brings you down a path of its own which you never designed or intended and it's not a necessarily bad path to go down (in fact some people would be envious) but you're wondering if you'll feel the same way in 5, 10, 20 years when you'll be coming back to where you are now, evaluating your life, staring at yourself, but maybe by this time you'll have other things in your life that you didn't have to think about before and have to consider, and ( ... )

john1082 May 4 2010, 15:25:18 UTC

Where have you been?