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CoVid 19 have we reached the breaking point. Old people die.. That's why we call them "old people".... people will say it just signifies a number but it doesn't....It signifies an ending not a beginning... The stage of life for old people is a shrinking reality.. For most that reality ends alone, in a single bed and a single room. Dylan Thomas wrote... ''Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light." I always thought that meant We fight for life...until there is no light. there is no such thing as a dying light.. There is just light and there is dark. CoVid19 has given me a little different perspective of the dying light. The dying light has become the shrinking reality. Some thing we really can't control. It's the single Bed and the single room... reality. With this Virus..Instead of just the single bed and single room...we become attached to "The Matrix" of a shrinking life.... controlled by screens, TV and Computer. Unattached to reality. This virus takes it toll on everyone..Yet for most of the young it's a temporary reality.. but for the old.. It's shrinks ones life away into "The Matrix" of the dark This Virus for the old.... has taken away the reality of life..The reasons we rage against the dying light...Friends, Family, purpose, freedom, choice... We remember ....we see the light,,,but the breaking point comes when we can no longer touch it and feel it.......This Virus has put Us...Alone, in the final single room, in that single bed, but gave us a TV and computer screen. We are prisoners..of it's Matrix.. for many it's a life sentence |
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I know not when death will come No banshee cry or knock on the door It creeps and crawls, a steady hum upon the stoop, beneath the floor A future, I can not reverse nor prepare myself, with dying fear A calling that comes so perverse When it whispers "someday is near" The final bell must always toll An indeterminate fate of my misgiving Yet death comes early, to achieve it's goal. In life, when I choose to stop living A wrote this a while back.. I wrote to remind myself.. that there is only light. And i will have plenty of time to deal with the dark .. when I'm in the dark I can't waste my time in the light. thinking about the dark. I never realized what this virus could do...How it shrinks ones life..Until.. there is only yourself. Alone, in a room.......with no escape.
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11/16/2020 6:34 am |
I think we have reached the breaking point. I suspect people will be dying inside their home within weeks Cricket. I think they have to roll out that vaccine within a month...before Christmas on a massive scale. Americans are about to get the shock of their lives. You should read the Wall Street Journal...experts don't know how the virus is spreading!!!! We are back to contaminated objects!!!! Here's another thing...my daughter had to order toilet paper from Amazon...NONE at Costco or Target. I've already stocked up months ago in anticipation of this problem. I shouldn't have had to do that but I knew it was coming and here we are. WE ARE NOW IN A DIRE EMERGENCY... we need to shutdown no later than the end of this week or else.
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I think we have reached the breaking point. I suspect people will be dying inside their home within weeks Cricket. I think they have to roll out that vaccine within a month...before Christmas on a massive scale. Americans are about to get the shock of their lives. You should read the Wall Street Journal...experts don't know how the virus is spreading!!!! We are back to contaminated objects!!!! Here's another thing...my daughter had to order toilet paper from Amazon...NONE at Costco or Target. I've already stocked up months ago in anticipation of this problem. I shouldn't have had to do that but I knew it was coming and here we are. WE ARE NOW IN A DIRE EMERGENCY... we need to shutdown no later than the end of this week or else. In then movie "the matrix "....it's about people being kept alive.. living in a virtual reality.. It's much like a dream world...Except this virus is a nightmare in which you die at the end.. or everything around you dies. The nightmare is the same no matter how it turns out, and it keeps recurring over and over again. This blog is not about dying.. It's about dying while you're alive... Certainly we need to stop it from making Us DEAD.. But the breaking point is reached.. when we can't stop it from "killing" us. this blog is intended for this site.. it's about the effects of the virus on "old people". Not the young... The young will find a way to live again.. will have more chances... most us "old folk" won't... what's get them through the day is not the same as what gets us through the day. there are things old people can't live without.. those things are being taken away. We are truly it victims..in both our reality and our perception. I find music to be my last bastion of my normalcy.. It reminds me of Love and compassion, of the world in which i grew old in.. I can't go out and find it anymore, I can't go out and be reminded of it anymore.. I can't go on a new adventure.. I can no longer succeed.. but just as important I can no longer fail Musics reminds me of those things. In our lives as "old' folk" we are preparing ourselves for loss. Simple things.. the loss of work, the loss of the ability to walk.. to drive. to hear, to see, to speak, to feel.. a gradual change to give us the capacity to deal with it.. This virus and what it has cost us.. is too great a loss for us to deal with.. There is a big difference, at our age, between what you can't do that you can't do.. and what you can do that you can't do..
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11/16/2020 11:01 am |
I caught that. You remember the song Eve of Destruction in the 60's? Life is so incredibly fragile. In spite of periods where things seemed out of control and a certain destiny seemed inevitable, there always seemed to be that glimmer of hope that kept us focused on what we needed to do. Even in the face of death and destruction it didn't inhibit our capacity to depend upon on hope, and with confidence. I think that still exists today Cricket, but, I think our generation has now arrived at the breaking point, for our generation. I just gave you a reality check in my opinion. I'm not trying to understand anything really. You'll have to take that somewhere else I guess. But I did want to ask you if you watched the 60 Minutes interview with Obama. I think you would have really related to something he said about truth...wondering if we had reached the point where truth doesn't even matter anymore. It is a worthwhile question even though its obvious to me that truth does still matter, a lot. But so does the consequences of ignoring it. So let me turn the tables of reality here... When, or will, consequences matter? Have we reached that breaking point.
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11/16/2020 6:04 pm |
No. Never.
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I caught that. You remember the song Eve of Destruction in the 60's? Life is so incredibly fragile. In spite of periods where things seemed out of control and a certain destiny seemed inevitable, there always seemed to be that glimmer of hope that kept us focused on what we needed to do. Even in the face of death and destruction it didn't inhibit our capacity to depend upon on hope, and with confidence. I think that still exists today Cricket, but, I think our generation has now arrived at the breaking point, for our generation. I just gave you a reality check in my opinion. I'm not trying to understand anything really. You'll have to take that somewhere else I guess. But I did want to ask you if you watched the 60 Minutes interview with Obama. I think you would have really related to something he said about truth...wondering if we had reached the point where truth doesn't even matter anymore. It is a worthwhile question even though its obvious to me that truth does still matter, a lot. But so does the consequences of ignoring it. So let me turn the tables of reality here... When, or will, consequences matter? Have we reached that breaking point. He questions himself as to whether or not he was tough enough on THEM. why so many times he turned the other cheek..He doubted himself.. but, It's worth the questioning.. because we have reaped from the lies told about Obama.. It was with he, in which the the ideas of the truth not mattering began. I doubt any President before him, went through it.. Through it all they tore him down, nail him to the cross. and in so doing lost the gift he was trying to give. The belief in America.. and his faith and optimism in it's people.. Obama couldn't just say he had it.. He had to live it That they could not destroy it, by the same means they have destroyed so many others as they have destroyed ME. He wouldn't allow them to. He made the the right choice not to fight back. Great men don't win.. they make great sacrifices. So Obama got pushed down, got lied about. and didn't fight back. but it's through him..that my lost faith and lost belief has it's hope. That what he stood for.... could rise again.
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