Tuesday, January 14, 2025

Things I will never know

 

   
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or today:

I will never know what it is like to understand or follow the stock market reports or investing and managing my millions or billions.

OR..

What it is like to tell ‘my man’ to call our place in Maui and tell them to prepare dinner, then notify our pilot to have the plane ready with a flight plan to Maui. 

This is silly, of course I will never know what it is like to have paid ‘servants. Full time Valet, Cook, housekeeper, etc. or  the things concerning super wealth. I truly don’t care if I ever know. LOL

Like friend Myra says, we have to walk in their shoes. to know.

At mine and my sweethearts’ age, we are blessed to still have each other; and that she still likes me. Some of you have experienced what it is like to lose a loving mate.  Sherry and I cannot KNOW how that feels. WE are not naive, we know, unless there is a ‘Rapture’ of the good folks, or we are fortunate to pass from this world together, one of us will be left.

I sleep late, she told me once when I was sleeping later than usual, she stood by the bed watching to see If I moved.  We laughed about it. NOW, just one morning ago I awoke first, I seldom do that.  I watched her for 10-15 minutes; with this sleep sack we use, I could not tell if she was breathing; finally, she rolled over and I breathed a sigh of relief.

 You see, I sleep without my cochlear devices, so I am totally deaf. I would never know if she cried, yelled or whispered, unless she can touch me. I cannot hear a jet plane without the devices. I thought about that as she lay there not moving a muscle.

You see, we have both known someone who went to bed and never woke up. WE have a friend who was watching TV with her husband, she thought he had fallen asleep.  He had passed without a chirp.

Yeah in a few days I turn 86, she is already 87. We have outlived our families and so many friends.  My guess is, we have at best 10yrs left.  BUT WE ALL KNOW it can be a week or sooner.

 Unless you commit ‘sideways’** ONLY GOD knows our final hour

Nite Shipslog

PS 

Thanks for reading this stuff. I especially like the comments of course, so THANKS for the comments. It has been a little cool for Florida, NOT complaining, some of you are doing the snow and freeze shiver and dance.!  

**SIDEWAYS was suicide in my childhood.

5 comments:

Chatty Crone said...

This was kind of sad - however I have to admit Rick and I have thought about it a few times ourselves. We want to go at the same time. I personally don't know how I will live without him. If he goes first I will have to muster a lot of strength from God.

Anonymous said...

Never say Never Jack. Maybe the doorbell will ring one day and it will be Publishers Clearing House. If so, just please remember your blog friends as you jet off to Maui.

Lisa said...

That time I went for a photo/commercial shoot, I got to feel rich for 5 days. My travel plans were all planned out by someone else. 5 star hotel, spending money, 3 healthy meals each day, gifts and a limo ready to take me anywhere I wanted to go. However, I wouldn't want to live that way. I like to earn the things I have and do. It makes it feel more valuable.

Nite
Lisa

Victor S E Moubarak said...

As we get older, we all tend to reflect on our mortality. This is no bad thing per se. Let it be part of our thankful prayer each day. Every morning I thank God for having survived another night, and every evening I thank Him for yet another day.

As for walking in other peoples shoes: if you walk a mile in another person's shoes you will be accused of stealing them!

God bless you and Sherry, Jack my friend.

Mevely317 said...

So I'm not the only one? (Who checks to see if Tom's chest is rising and falling, that is.)
I still like daydreaming ... "free for nothing" as my mother used to say.