"When I grow old..."

[jipsi_starr]

Disclaimer: This post is downright depressing, but I had to write it or I'd lose my mind. Don't say I didn't warn you...

So, I keep meaning to write this, but everytime I want to... well, the mood of it just makes me want to curl in a ball and cry. I've written this a thousand versions of this in my head, and I bet this will sound like none of

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[threegee]

this life, like all things, is impermanent. by accepting this truth, you will move past it and truly know the joy of life. i would rather not have seen so many friends and classmates see their end, but i acknowledge that i should not be here, either. my generation has seen much loss and hardship, and i worry that yours will fare little better. still, life is a funny thing, and it has so much to offer that worrying over what cannot be helped diminishes the greatest gift we have. i fully intend to one day sit on my porch, walker in hand, cursing young folk for trampling my lawn, but if it does not come to pass, i will be at peace, having seen what i have seen and knowing what i have known. you too will grow past this.

[sariel_t]

*hug* I understand. I was talking about this yesterday with Alex while we were watching people walk past. I think what you do is just try to live life to the fullest, and be grateful for what you have.

[mac_beth13]

I don't have the answers you seek, and sometimes I wonder about and feel the same things you do; I think most people do. I do know that to have friends and loved ones in your life to treasure is a gift to be enjoyed. Life is a gift whether you believe it to be a divine gift or just a gift of the heart to share with others. Try to live in the moment. Enjoy a happy moment when it occurs and hold fast to the memory to go back to as your happy place. *hugs* Remember you are always loved, beautiful from the inside out, full of life and energy. Luv ya Rah!

[blaze2242]

I'm also pretty lucky in that I've lost very few people close to me. For me, death is not one of the things I fear, and that is just because of my faith that there is a good happy place after we die. I am somewhat religious and so heaven and God fit into my vision of the afterlife. I also feel very strongly that there is a reason and a plan for how things go here on earth, so if a person dies at a time that seems unfair to me, it must be for some reason, there must be some good to come of it. Somehow.