kicker_of_elves wrote: Mon Mar 06, 2023 10:13 am
My dad, only 27 days after my mom. They were married 70 years.
That's incredible. My mom's parents were married sixty years, I think.
We have some parents in our family who are in precarious health. It's interesting to me what effect it has on people (incl. me).
You can appreciate intellectually that you only have so much time on Earth, but...let's face it, we hear "life is short," and we think get it, but we all feel like life is pretty fucking long most of the time. Especially the last few years.
I guess it's not until we really see things end, especially for people who have in our lives every minute of every day we've been here, that we get at a visceral level how fleeting all of it is.
Such a grind at times. Sometimes it is genuinely fucked up, and at the very least we do waste a lot of what time we have. But it's all we got. The good parts are incredible, mind-blowing if you think about what is really happening while it's happening. Even the bad parts are often deeply interesting...absurd...grimly amusing. I'd really like it to last as long as possible.