18-02-2018, 06:47 PM
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Re: Leisurely Scribbles (part 5)
Originally Posted by
gumbud
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Well I do suppose it’s time to talk about the unpalatable – the mortal and the immortal. There are of course those amongst us who feel and even perhaps know they are immortal and those others who will say “tush” we are all mortal and when we cease this mortal coil that’s it that’s the end.
No shuffling in the back row Jem and RJ; this is a serious topic. So as we among us who have reached or drawing near the three score years and ten will attest – we KNOW our time draws near too. We see those stars and celebrities and close friends and others ‘drop off the perch' – some sooner than we expected.
However no matter how long I ponder on this topic I KNOW my time will come BUT I FEEL immortal. And there is the difference between scientific knowledge perhaps and spiritual enlightenment ?
So each day as I groan and moan my way through the aches and pains I KNOW its coming but I don’t BELIEVE there is an end. Thank you ; I thank you erhm ahem I thank you!!
Well done fellow posters, this latest flurry of literary and psychodedadeda has struck a rich vein.
I wrote a poem Gummy. About being 70, Ii came across it in an envelope containing 2 photographs of me at school aged 5 & 8. Looking at me and my ragamuffin chums I couldn’t help wondering how many of them were dead now. Or peering into my half FULL glass, well you know the rest of that cliché
Aged 5 or 8, I doubt very much my life expectancy was ever a consideration.
In passing I have over my life time been close to death several times , through illness, drowning, by fire and road accident.
I am 70 this year.
I hadn’t planned on being so tired and weary, or be so restricted in simple tasks at 70. That said I enjoy life and my family.
Even so I am ready for the end any time sooner or later, or as Sir Winston said this is “The end of the beginning”
My dear Granny Maud told me at 96, she didn’t care whether she went UP or DOWN after passing on cos “I’m bound to know people in both places”
JOHN 14 v2 says
My Father's house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you?
That’s all very well but it means I am gonna be DOWNSIZING again after my death.
THREE SCORE AND TEN
When it’s all said and dusted and done
Your three score and ten has finally run
Will you leave this Earth a better place?
Have you finished the run you meant to race?
Or is your life beset
With many a regret
Much to do yet
Before we forget
When it’s all said and dusted and done
I enjoyed my life, some of it was fun
Did you broaden your outlook meet every race
Or avoid the discomfort, etched in every face
Have you any last request
Now you’re no longer a guest
Heading for the eternal rest
Were you the worst or the best
© RJ 2014