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Enjoy your life

rebel

rebel

My sister in law just passed. I'll spare the details just to say she was bright, loved life, had a lot of health issues. This cascaded in just a month and a half. We never know. Enjoy life, shooting , hunting, fishing or crochet and basket weaving. Whatever. Just enjoy it as it's gone to soon. Lost a lot of folks over the last few years. None that were younger than me though.
God's speed Missy! I love ya!
 
Sorry for your losses.
I realized just what you are saying at a relatively young age. I was 18 working as a pipefitter with a lot of older fellows who had all these aspirations when they retired. What I seen with way too many of them was they retired 6 months to a year and a half later they died mostly complications from being a pipefitter. So in 95 my grandfather invited me to go out to South Dakota prairie dog hunting the best time I'd ever had with him. It was also the last time he made the trip due to cancer. So at that point in time I made up my mind as a pipefitter I was going to do what I could afford to do. I went to South Dakota every year from 1995 till 2013. Then in 2014 I had to retire from pipefitting on disability due to a back injury. I am so glad that I did what I could afford to do at the time because now I have plenty of time but I could never drive to South Dakota.
I understand what you are talking about live life to the fullest because you never know what retirement will bring.
Again sorry for your losses. May God be with you.
 
Sorry for your loss and know, even though I will turn 70 in 8 days I just found out yesterday I've had 2 heart attacks, I didn't know, my Dr knew in April but failed to tell me or to take action to prevent another one! Dang, now I've got all kinds of crap to go through to find out "how am I?", do what you can when you can! You have no promise of tomorrow.
 
Thanks to all. She was just 51. Survived a kidney and pancreas transplant. Had her a decade and a half longer than we thought. She always kidded me about being a naughty boy. Her word for ornery I guess. She was good people. Doted on her nieces, including my daughter. Got my daughter a tutu with feathers when she was around 3, told her I'd get her back. Never did.
 
Do "WHATEVER" makes happy. It's up to you!! Only going around one time (unless you're Shirley Mac Laine) so make the best of it.

Started drawing SS and kept working. Had medical issues (someone was trying to tell me something) so hung it up. That was maybe 10 to 15 years ago? I've lost count.
Got over the medical issues and now doing the probate thing for my Sisters estate. Can't check out now, got too much work to do. ;)

One thing to keep in mind, got folks NOT in the best of health? Keep in contact. A simple phone call can make a BIG difference in someone's life. :)

Lost contact with a brother from another mother, good shooting buddy.
He was going downhill and I didn't see it. He had cut me off short and it finally sunk in (after) what had happened.
Finally found out both he and his wife had passed within weeks of each other. Still miss them both.
Figured at my age, not doing anymore funerals, unless it's mine. :p:D
 
"Yesterday is History
Tomorrow is a Mystery
Today is a gift, that's why they call it The Present"

"Live every day like it is your last, because, one day, it will be"

I am 83 and been retired for 25 years. No money, but a houseful of memories. Building a shooting house, the cold is beginning to get to me, and the kids won't let me use a ladder stand. Glad June is over, I buried 6 friends. 3 older and 3 younger.

Bill
 
Think I need to quit watching the NEWS and reading some threads, before my kids say the same about me. This weekend I begin restoring to useful condition my 80s travel trailer, If all goes as planned maybe I will get to look some of you up..... Peaceful thoughts Reb
 
rebel said:
My sister in law just passed. I'll spare the details just to say she was bright, loved life, had a lot of health issues. This cascaded in just a month and a half. We never know. Enjoy life, shooting , hunting, fishing or crochet and basket weaving. Whatever. Just enjoy it as it's gone to soon. Lost a lot of folks over the last few years. None that were younger than me though.
God's speed Missy! I love ya!
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Nothing like an empty seat at the table to remind us of the joy a person with a good heart brings to life.
As the good book says, “It is appointed unto man....”
 
Sorry for your loss. I feel your pain brother. I lost my wife of 48 years on November 7, 2021.

I wish I could say it gets easier, but it hasn't, at least not for me. It's an old cliche but it applies, "just take one day at a time." Try to find just one thing positive each day. The outdoors and nature can an effective remedy, at least it is for me.

While I continue to engage in the shooting sports and some limited varmint hunting, I've lost a lot of passion for both, but it does provide a distraction of sorts.

If you can avoid watching the hyperbolic news and its constant negativity it might help. Try to introduce positive experiences into your life and embrace them.

Best wishes for you and your family.
 
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