They are starting to go now...

[Steven Westberg]

I just received word that a guy I have known since I was 13 passed away yesterday. I’m 66. Plus another old time guitar player I know was just diagnosed with prostate cancer! WTF???
It seems like after 45 life literally goes down an incline and starts picking up speed like a shit show crazy train.

 

[Digger]

Well let me tell you at 74 it doesn’t get at better!

Enjoy what you’ve got while you’ve got it!

 

[Davis Sharp]

Sorry to hear about your friend.

 

[Lancpudn]

Yes getting old is tough at times hearing of old time friends passing.

 

[grinwer]

Everyone who lived before us died.
And we know about this from childhood, but in our youth it does not bother us. Ha ha ha (.
This is how this world works. But we will be born again. There is no end to it.

 

[Steven Westberg]

Everyone who lived before us died.
And we know about this from childhood, but in our youth it does not bother us. Ha ha ha (.
This is how this world works. But we will be born again. There is no end to it.

I know. There is still eternity out there but this guy was atheist. :-(

 

[grinwer]

I know. There is still eternity out there but this guy was atheist. :-(

Atheists are also reborn in a new body. They don't disappear. )

 

[Steven Westberg]

Atheists are also reborn in a new body. They don't disappear. )

I was thinking I would never see him again.

 

[Davis Sharp]

Religion

 

[grinwer]

I was thinking I would never see him again.

In this life, no. It is sad (
But maybe in the next life )

 

[grinwer]

Religion

I'm not.

 

[The Convert]

One of the sadder things I’ve also experienced getting older is that new friends aren’t always around too long. And the old ones pass on too. It’s hard to feel like you’re lucky when you lose so much.

 

[Otto99]

I hated it when my surf and beach buddy in Florida died, as he was alone. He apparently had a heart attack, but no one knew it. I got suspicious when our email discussion of Star Trek: Picard abruptly ended, and phone calls weren’t answered. For George to not have an opinion on things Star Trek was highly irregular. Call people, text them, message on social media, stay in touch, tell them you love them. You never know when you won’t be able to again.

 

[Steven Westberg]

I hated it when my surf and beach buddy in Florida died, as he was alone. He apparently had a heart attack, but no one knew it. I got suspicious when our email discussion of Star Trek: Picard abruptly ended, and phone calls weren’t answered. For George to not have an opinion on things Star Trek was highly irregular. Call people, text them, message on social media, stay in touch, tell them you love them. You never know when you won’t be able to again.

Thanks. That is what I will do.

 

[Steven Westberg]

Religion

Some of us need propping up on the side we lean towards.

 

[Steven Westberg]

I hated it when my surf and beach buddy in Florida died, as he was alone. He apparently had a heart attack, but no one knew it. I got suspicious when our email discussion of Star Trek: Picard abruptly ended, and phone calls weren’t answered. For George to not have an opinion on things Star Trek was highly irregular. Call people, text them, message on social media, stay in touch, tell them you love them. You never know when you won’t be able to again.

I lost a friend that way too. He was in terrible health and just didn’t get up one day. He was gone with a coronary from eating poorly.
He was a couple years younger than me but I called him Uncle Albert, after the McCartney tune. Al liked butter pies! I called him “Mijo” Spanish for “my son”. He called me “Mija” Spanish for “my daughter”! Hahahahahahahaha.

 

[Steven Westberg]

One of the sadder things I’ve also experienced getting older is that new friends aren’t always around too long. And the old ones pass on too. It’s hard to feel like you’re lucky when you lose so much.

I know. This guy I had a bone to pick with for 40 years because he forged my signature on a 1966 Ford Mustang b model and stole it and then sold it for way less than it was worth.in retrospect I would have rather been friends than antagonists.
His name was Gene. Sleep well Geno!

 

[Steven Westberg]

Yes getting old is tough at times hearing of old time friends passing.

Negative pressure...

 

[Otto99]

Add the days flying by. Remember when summer was a forever paradise between school years? Now I wake up at 7ish, make coffee, and bam, it’s 10 am. Then next thing I know it’s time to make the evening meal. Sigh.

 

[grinwer]

The irony is that we learn to love by losing loved ones.
And it stays with us. Our experience.
If we think that life is one, then only tragedy and pain.
But if death is not the end of the story, then there is already more meaning and optimism.