This is a follow-up post to the 2/25/16
preceding post on What's the Point?
Longevity. What's the point?
Interviews # Three and Four
Is it worth the bother and pain?
Interview #3 She is so sweet. The only thing we ever argue about is the status of her wealth. She denies her wealth. Tries to tell me she has never been rich and just because she and her husband used to fly around in a Lear Jet doen't mean they themselves had money.
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Well, she dresses like a million bucks at age 83!
The Lear Jet is long since gone, as is her husband, but the aura of wealth still clings to this happy elderly lady.
I try to tell her I am poor but she is having none of that fiddle faddle!
So I tell her it is all relative. I merely am comparing myself to her.
I ask her if she knows the difference between an elderly lady, such as herself, and an old woman.
She doesn't know. I give her a hint: "I am an old woman."
Her response is a statement not an answer to my question! She states I am much younger than she!
"The difference between an elderly lady and an old woman", I say, "is money!"
Not responding to my wisdom, she brings up her age again!
Once we make it to our 80's I guess we need to brag!
So I ask the question: would you like to live to be 130?
"Not really," she said. "I want to be functional and I don't want to live longer than I am functional, but if I have to, I will, just as long as the young people keep smiling at me!"
Longevity. It is worth it if young people keep smiling at us.
Old people's smiles are helpful, too,
but if we live long enough, all the old people we know are dead!
Need those young people to smile!
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Interview #4 She is a nurse. Aging, to be sure, but not so old she doesn't know which end is up.
I don't have to interview her because she is gonna tell me whether I ask or not.
usnews.com"I tell people who whine about why they are still living, that they are living because they either have something yet to learn, or they have something yet to teach."
Ok,
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