It’s a Short Trip
When we are children, the days are long. It seems like we will never grow up and be on our own. The long summer days are ours to play with friends. On winter days we ride our sleds and have winter fun. The days are so long. Will we ever grow up? Then we become adolescents and time quickens a bit. But we are still under the thumb and not fully grown. It seems like becoming an adult leaving home will never come
Thank you anyway and see you around. I could say that I could still say that I have to deal with the notion of age because my mother is 84 and she is declining noticeably and I'm afraid about her decline. I'm frightened about it. And my girlfriend is older than I am and she's had some problems with her health and now she's recovered. But anyway yes, decline is more palpable when you are living with older people the way I am living
But anyway, having said that, I do thank you very much for your feedback. I appreciate any feedback that I can get on anything I say or write. I appreciate your is very much, and you have a nice day. Bye
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
Tanya Coles
@MsColes77 · 2:11
You start thinking about how much time you have left and what you haven't done and how much time you got left to get it done, and then you start to, in some ways think, well, if I was going to do it by now, I would have done it. So ain't no point in doing it because I'm in my forty s, I should have done it in my twenty s
David Munoz
@DMunoz_Artist · 1:02
I'm at that stage of my life now where I recognize that this is probably the last act of my life, however long I've got left, and certainly recognize that I have fewer days ahead of me than I've got behind me. And your poetry really illustrated that. So wanted to say great job. Really appreciated it. And thanks for posting
Glenn Mann
@GlennPriceMann · 1:47
You. Hello. Thank you for sharing that. That was such a powerful poem. And I think as we all get older, I think we you know, we begin to look back and think about the younger days when we when time seems infinite and you get to a certain point and it feels more fleeting. But I also believe in many ways that time is timeless, and I think we can experience joy and love at almost any point in our lives
But I've had acceptance with that for quite a while, and I didn't even realize because I hadn't thought about it, because there was so much stuff going on in the union trades, at least the carpenters, for sure. The life expectancy after retirement is ten years. That's it. And some guys can actually get out early because you can work so much. And as union members, we actually do sit down
And then as you get older, the more they they go more into, like, the blue chips and, like, it's more safe money to make sure that if something happens, your family has that money, and your money's solidifying as your body's degrading, to be honest. So if you get a chance to spend it, it's a good thing. But when they said that, it didn't shake me, but it made sense
Trudy Rech
@TBR · 1:26
You? Well, I'm well, on that long journey, I'm almost as old as dirt. Some days I still feel young and when the light hits just right, I look a little younger than Am. But then when it hits again, I look way older than I feel. And the aches and the pains are certainly there. I get wobbly when I don't want to be
Hello, Glenn. I listened to your response and I wondered where you have this idea from about being 1000 years old or having 1000 years in front of you. Can you develop a bit? Have you got that belief that we are going to survive the end of our personal human being life? What is your conviction in that relationship? I don't get it really well yet. So if you care to explain, your conviction would be delighted. Thank you. From Switzerland. From Zakay
Glenn Mann
@GlennPriceMann · 2:02
Hey, thanks for asking for me to elaborate more. I'm trying to explain it in words that actually make sense. It's a combination of detachment but also awareness. Know the personal life it does have an exclamation point on it. But as individuals we're not separate from anything, right? We're not separate from our environment, we're not separate from our experiences and influences. We're not separate from the generations of people it took us to be born
I think the abstract idea that we are not only individuals is not really helpful in everyday life. Perhaps that's why I asked the question, because we are obsessed. But perhaps we can control our thoughts and mitigate our feelings of distress that some hard times are ah, present. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Greetings
