I thought I'd cheer myself up today!
"We mustn't forget old people with their rotten bodies, old people who are so close to death, something that young people don't want to think about (so it is to homes that they entrust the care of accompanying their parents, with no fuss or bother). And where's the joy in these final hours that they ought to be making the most of? They're spent in boredom & bitterness, endlessly revisiting memories.We mustn't forget that our bodies decline, friends die, everyone forgets about us, and the end is solitude. Nor must we forget that these old people were young once, that a lifespan is pathetically short, that one day you're twenty and the next day you're eighty.....it all seems so very far away....the prospect of old age....life goes by in no time at all. They're always in such a hurry, so stressed out by deadlines, so eager for now so they needn't think about tomorrow. If you dread tomorrow, it's because you don't know how to build the present, you tell yourself you can deal with it tomorrow, and it's a lost cause anyway because tomorrow always ends up becoming today.
We have to live with the certainty that we'll get old and that it won't look nice or be good or feel happy.......there's an old people's home waiting somewhere & so we have to surpass ourselves every day, make every day undying.
That's what the future is for, to build the present with real plans, made by living people."
When I get back from my holidays I'm going to have an alarm system installed so if I have an accident or am suddenly unwell in the house alone I can press a button & call for help. How incredibly sensible of me! What an absolute bugger that it's come to this though.
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