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Post by puffy on Dec 5, 2018 15:07:32 GMT -5
When I was a young fella My father told me that I should listen to old folks because they had something that I didn't have,,Experience,,Now that I'm one of the old folks.A lot of youngsters ask me what it's like to be old.I tell them it hurts.Not only physically but mentally.Part of getting old is losing those you love.Those old folks that I listened to and learned from are gone now.I cared deeply for them.I will always remember them and miss them.Those who morn the passing of a former president have reminded me of the feeling of a sense of loss and emptiness I have without them.I especially remember a good friend named Charlie He got me into pipe smoking.He only smoked Kaywoodie pipes.He believed that pipe smokers should have a Mustache so I grew one I still have it in honor of his memory..Those who feel the sorrow of loosing a loved one have my deepest sympathy.I know that feeling of loosing a part of your life that can never be replaced.
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Post by flybypipe on Dec 5, 2018 15:18:52 GMT -5
A very thoughtful post Larry. It is good to remind us of these things once in awhile.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 5, 2018 15:19:45 GMT -5
That's a sweet post and very dear to my heart. I don't have a lot of words in me for a change, but the friendship of elders has saved my "being" many times
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Post by pepesdad1 on Dec 5, 2018 15:24:00 GMT -5
As one of those old geezers...Truer words cannot be spoken.
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Post by oldcajun123 on Dec 5, 2018 15:40:29 GMT -5
 Larry I know, that’s why I don’t go to the Wall, I can’t,
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Post by mwps70 on Dec 5, 2018 15:45:26 GMT -5
I turn 48 soon so I am not quite to the point where I have had many losses of family and friends. I still have a grandpa living. There have been a few losses though. I try not to live in the past but what really gets me sad is looking at my son who just turned 20. We were inseparable from the time he was a baby until a teen but things change as they always do. He is off experiencing college and I wake up dreaming of him as my little buddy and it brings tears to my eyes. He doesn't need me like he did when he was little. I so miss those days as they were so good for me as a single parent (we divorced when he was 4 and he chose to live with me). I was a pretty good dad but of course made some mistakes as no one is perfect. I am proud of the job I did and I sure am proud of my son. He is really a fine young man with a good head on his shoulders who has plans and dreams and no one is going to stop him. I try to let that joy fill my heart when I am sad about my little boy being grown up. He still needs me I know in my heart, just in a different way now. Sorry didn't mean this to be so long of a post but sorrow is sorrow.
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Post by Legend Lover on Dec 5, 2018 16:03:51 GMT -5
I've no words...
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Post by just ol ed on Dec 5, 2018 16:19:26 GMT -5
I'm not sad at all. Just grateful to so many who've allowed me to live this long! Still, hear-warming posts above, enjoyed 'em.
Mr. "Seniority" at present? Who knows but happily upright, exercise quite a bit (former Olympian in '60) and active as can
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Post by Deleted on Dec 5, 2018 16:57:07 GMT -5
Larry, well written heart warming post. When you lose someone close to your heart, remember all the good times. But there will always be a gap in your life from that day forward, one never forgets💔💔💔
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Post by pepesdad1 on Dec 5, 2018 18:02:59 GMT -5
Larry I know, that’s why I don’t go to the Wall, I can’t, Completely understand...can't go either for the same reasons. |
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Post by trailboss on Dec 5, 2018 23:49:30 GMT -5
Must have been one hell of a guy Larry....  Seriously..I concur though, as the years pass by, hopefully you gain wisdom in life's journey...as you see friends, colleagues, loved ones that pass it should help one to take stock in what is really important in life. A forum member recently lamented to me that a friend had broken away from him after 60 years of friendship over a peripheral issue...that lamenting from him speaks well for him, but I cannot help but think that the friend discarded the wheat and grabbed after the chaff....pretty sad. |
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Post by Pistol Pete 1911 on Dec 6, 2018 7:34:30 GMT -5
Considering my lifestyle I have lost many friends through the years and I miss them all dearly. Now that I'm older it's just kind of expected but it doesn't hurt any less
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Post by PhantomWolf on Dec 10, 2018 14:55:13 GMT -5
That's a great thought, Puff. Life is kind of like a huge party in that regard. It starts off a relatively empty room, then fills up over the years with friends, family, acquaintances, even a few enemies. Then one day, one by one, your guests start getting their coats and bidding you adieu. The only two possibilities I can see: One grabs their coat and heads off early or they are left alone in that big empty hall in the end. Alone with the echos.
I think about my grandfather a lot. I spend a lot of time imagining what it must be like to get to that age and just feel like an alien in your own world. The people and places he grew up with have all changed or gone entirely. The very landscape of the world he has known for eighty years has changed. Forests he hunted in as a kid are now leveled and filled with condos and cul-de-sacs. Just a few months back a lady he was dating passed away of natural causes related to old age. Though he was not really close to this woman, that has to have an effect one's view on things. I'm in the back nine of my 30s and I already notice how some of the colour and flavour has faded from my world a little. I honestly hope I don't make it to Grandpa's age. I mean, at least he has his family to anchor him to reality. haha I'll be alone in that alien landscape of age- surrounded by strangers zipping about a place that is no longer my home.
Someone say something positive! hahaha
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Post by Deleted on Dec 10, 2018 18:42:15 GMT -5
Having travelled a lot in my former profession, I experience the past like a dream, as there is no objective frame of reference left to me to prove it all happened. Or that all those people and places who made up my life once existed, even though they still seem to me - gone forever as they are - more real than those who chide me for my moments of living in the past. There is no way to share or express the true immensity and breadth of the sense of loss after a lifetime, and that is perhaps what hurts the most.
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Larry I know, that’s why I don’t go to the Wall, I can’t, 
