This is Arlington Cemetery, many of these buried here only had minutes to realize life ends.
Sherry and I once worked in the Bureau of Naval Personnel. That building overlooks this cemetery. WE had lunch on the grass many times overlooking this scene. I did think of death of course, but mine was in the future, so I did not think of my passing back then.
SO for now:
Procrastination
is normal for us humans methinks. Such things as, 'Our car needs washing, I’ll
do it tomorrow!'
I need to
lose a few pounds, I am going to check into a good diet schedule, next week.
I mentioned
here before the time my dad’s eyes were opened by an attorney. I am repeating that:
Once my dad went to an attorney in our hometown. He said to the Atty, “I have
decided I need to make a will in case I die!”
He said the
attorney looked him in the eye, smiling and said, “We need to get this straight
Reverand, the statement is NOT
in case I die, it is WHEN
I DIE!”
So today my
point is, as I added numbers to my age every Birthday it was not until I
started to see 80s in that number before I faced facts. ‘Hey, over 90% of the
people I knew growing up, are DEAD!’ My family that lived to know adulthood,
2 brothers, 2 sisters, mom and dad are GONE! Sherry is the same, family gone!
Sherry just
said as she looked at the RV’ers in this large RV Park, “WE used to be in the
younger group here, now we are the oldest.”
Believe me, even
right now, I feel in my mind I am 17 years old. My only med or supplement is a
one a day vitamin. Funny this container says Men’s One-A-day. Now boys and girls have different one-a-day vitamins,
(I just learned that). All this time I thought one-a-day was one-a-day. LOL
Sherry &
I see our age group leave us on a regular basis. Just in the past few weeks Sherry has lost 3
or 4 of her graduating class.
This is not
meant to be a negative or SAD post, just factual. In your life you have aims and goals, plans & hopes, do not put them off. If you really want it done, DO IT!
I have only a
couple things left to do. (I’ll get to them later!) Then I will be ready. Not procrastinating of course, LOL
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4 comments:
Merry Christmas. Yes, I think it is a good time to be ready, and live life!
Boy, how your words resonate tonight. I/we lost my first/best Alabama friend unexpectedly a few nights ago. I think this makes 8 (9?) members of our little congregation just this year. I need to quit procrastinating and put my wishes on paper before it falls to my son.
Merry Christmas and a blessed New Year. We're the old people in our family now too.!!!
It is true, we all are going to die, it's something we all should be taught at an early age. Planning has to be done. The only thing I have ready is a cemetery plot and I have that thanks to a friend who gave me two plots as a gift. I'll be laid to rest right next to DDH. The will I have was done years ago when my husband was alive and the children were young. It needs a serious update. The truth of the matter is that I've put it off because now I don't own anything. No house or car and only a small amount of money in the bank.
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