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A Terrifying Dream
#4244445 - 06/01/05 02:24 PM (18 years, 9 months ago) |
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Last night I dreamt I was helping an unknown, young girl of about six who had scraped her knee in the park. She looked up at me with big blue eyes and a sweet smile and said, "Thank you, grandpa." I woke up in a cold sweat, shaking uncontrollably.
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Re: A Terrifying Dream [Re: Swami]
#4244465 - 06/01/05 02:32 PM (18 years, 9 months ago) |
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Sounds like someone wanted to have children (and cute little 6 year old grandkids) but didn't.
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Re: A Terrifying Dream [Re: Swami]
#4244475 - 06/01/05 02:37 PM (18 years, 9 months ago) |
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unknown?
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Re: A Terrifying Dream [Re: Swami]
#4244483 - 06/01/05 02:38 PM (18 years, 9 months ago) |
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What a beautiful dream. I'm sure you have some thoughts on it. I wonder if you would share them.
My guess is something along the lines of a message from your feminine side.
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Re: A Terrifying Dream [Re: Icelander]
#4244541 - 06/01/05 02:52 PM (18 years, 9 months ago) |
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You guys are too deep. It was about simple denial of aging.
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Re: A Terrifying Dream [Re: Swami]
#4244576 - 06/01/05 03:03 PM (18 years, 9 months ago) |
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Ha, You're probably right. Denial of aging is not so simple. Neither are dreams. We are about the same age. I think about it now. Letting go of the bodys youthful beauty and strength. I relied on that for so much. ( I remember you telling me to suck it up. Aging ain't for sissys.) .
It's a good subject for a thread. Especially with all the youngsters here.
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Re: A Terrifying Dream [Re: Icelander]
#4244606 - 06/01/05 03:11 PM (18 years, 9 months ago) |
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Letting go of the bodys youthful beauty and strength.
I didn't say anything about that! I will post an honest, headless picture on my 50th BD. Hell, my face is aging, but my body looks better than most guys over 25.
I am very strong and well-conditioned, but getting stiff (no not THAT way!). I doubt few here could keep up with me on a middle-of-the-day (112F) rough-terrain desert hike.
Despite that, I can feel the clock ticking...
"All we are is ducks in the wind; Ducks in the wind..."
~ Kansas
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Re: A Terrifying Dream [Re: Swami]
#4244617 - 06/01/05 03:13 PM (18 years, 9 months ago) |
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Re: A Terrifying Dream [Re: Swami]
#4244639 - 06/01/05 03:16 PM (18 years, 9 months ago) |
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I'd take you up on that hike gramps. Love the desert.
Comparing yourself to "most" people is cheating.
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I am just wondering if I am supposed to buy a Buick with an automatic about now. Should I start learning shuffle-board? Should I give up the green for Jack Daniels and let go of my "hippie" ways? Do I hang here with the youth to feel younger? In short, should I "act" my age? Maybe, I should let my belly go and fully embrace middle-age? Have I not earned the right to be physically sloppy a la Marlon Brando?
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Re: A Terrifying Dream [Re: Swami]
#4244677 - 06/01/05 03:22 PM (18 years, 9 months ago) |
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Quote:
Swami said: Letting go of the bodys youthful beauty and strength.
I didn't say anything about that! I will post an honest, headless picture on my 50th BD. Hell, my face is aging, but my body looks better than most guys over 25.
I am very strong and well-conditioned, but getting stiff (no not THAT way!). I doubt few here could keep up with me on a middle-of-the-day (112F) rough-terrain desert hike.
Despite that, I can feel the clock ticking...
"All we are is ducks in the wind; Ducks in the wind..."
~ Kansas
I think we're talking about the same thing. I'm like you I exercised so much in my life I'm in better shape that many half my age. I can handle that walk across the desert. Walking is my thing. Heat has never bothered me much. Still, I have my second knee surgery comming up. I can't do what I did at 30 and how will it be in another 15 years? Like you say, the clock is ticking. Actually I find the process facinating. I'm going to die and decay in body and there is nothing I can do about that. So were do I identify myself. Am I just that bod. Or is that a manifestation of something more? I didn't much think about this a 20.
Please send headless picture. I want to put my dogs face on it and put it on the frig.
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Re: A Terrifying Dream [Re: orechron]
#4244682 - 06/01/05 03:23 PM (18 years, 9 months ago) |
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You're on! Make sure to vist June to early September when the blast furnace is on full.
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Re: A Terrifying Dream [Re: Swami]
#4244683 - 06/01/05 03:23 PM (18 years, 9 months ago) |
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Quote:
Swami said: Last night I dreamt I was helping an unknown, young girl of about six who had scraped her knee in the park. She looked up at me with big blue eyes and a sweet smile and said, "Thank you, grandpa." I woke up in a cold sweat, shaking uncontrollably.
you still have about 15 years until you are officially "old", and even then you can look and feel young.
And becoming a real old man (with all characteristics) is a matter of choice, I've seem typical old people, and I've seen old people who only look old.
which part of being old scares you?
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Re: A Terrifying Dream [Re: Swami]
#4244693 - 06/01/05 03:25 PM (18 years, 9 months ago) |
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Fuck acting an age. I don't even know what that is suppose to mean when people say it as who sets the bar for what an age is suppose to act like.
I turned 37 a few days ago and it just fucked with my head. I do not like birthdays. Lets stay here with the youngins swami. Older people just talk about their health problems.
Who wants to hear about some ones gout?
I think we die because old people bore each other to death
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Re: A Terrifying Dream [Re: Swami]
#4244701 - 06/01/05 03:26 PM (18 years, 9 months ago) |
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Quote:
Swami said: You're on! Make sure to vist June to early September when the blast furnace is on full.
Is this to be a competition!
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Re: A Terrifying Dream [Re: Icelander]
#4244721 - 06/01/05 03:30 PM (18 years, 9 months ago) |
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You can all live vicriously through me if it makes you feel younger. I'll tell you about my day at 5pm when its time for your pills.
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hahahaha, that quack, made me giggle
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Re: A Terrifying Dream [Re: orechron]
#4244731 - 06/01/05 03:32 PM (18 years, 9 months ago) |
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MDMA please.
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which part of being old scares you?
Younger women no longer turn to look back and most of the women my age have let themselves go to seed or have w-a-y too much baggage. I truly enjoy solitude, but perhaps it is fear of being alone. I still connect with my ex, but that bond was permanently damaged by death and that is the saddest thing ever in my life.
My dad (75, also still a "jock" - he can STILL handstand walk down the beach!) watched his childhood and life-long friend degenerate with Alzheimer's. He said that scared him more than any cancer. He also stated that as a senior, one becomes invisible to society-at-large. One is seen as extraneous and no longer purposeful.
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Re: A Terrifying Dream [Re: Swami]
#4244766 - 06/01/05 03:39 PM (18 years, 9 months ago) |
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The ones who make themselves purposeful are seen and still a part of the life energy.
Thats why i don't like the idea of acting an age. It slowly removes you from being an active part of life. Retirement was one of the dumbest ideas ever.
Sometimes, i think about starting a program for retired people to volunteer at the schools.
Retires are a wasted resource and it doesn't have to be that way.
When I hear my mom say, "I am to old for that", I kick her ass into shape. It upsets me.
Why do people talk themselves into aging?
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