Do you think about your mortality?

Jiro said:
right but the difference is - you don't write for living.
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Wouldn't want to....that being said my stuff is pretty good. I write for me though.
 
jillio said:
Post reported. Name calling.
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Why report it? I've caught you in a lie before. You think it is ok for a member to post a lie about another member on AD? If that is not against the rules of posting it should be.
 
TheWriteAlex said:
You'd better be very careful about calling me a liar. In the last two days, two people have called me that on this board. That's two more than I've ever been called a liar in my life.

Here's your post:



THAT is by the pure definition of the word, proselytizing. Perhaps you don't know the correct definition of it? Let me look that word up for you:


(It's also a transitive verb, but I used it in the intransitive form.)

Any intelligent person can look at what you wrote and make the correct logical conclusion.

You've broken multiple AD rules in this thread. Would you like to continue? Please, by all means. Continue.
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Since you are good with a dictionary you should look up the meaning of the words: INDUCE, RECRUIT and SHARE

Doing that alone should show I broke no rules.
 
Wirelessly posted (Backberry)

Ummm er, would this be too soon to be completely through the grieving process? I expected this to take longer. I'm sitting here (at the airport picking up a coworker to go to the funeral) and I feel at peace with what has happened. I looked at the 5 stages of grieving and I seemed to have skipped 3 and 4. Should I be concerned or is this normal?
 
Cheetah said:
Wirelessly posted (Backberry)

Ummm er, would this be too soon to be completely through the grieving process? I expected this to take longer. I'm sitting here (at the airport picking up a coworker to go to the funeral) and I feel at peace with what has happened. I looked at the 5 stages of grieving and I seemed to have skipped 3 and 4. Should I be concerned or is this normal?
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I doubt you are through. Give it time. It is not a race. And no, I am not trying to be crass.
 
Cheetah said:
I have been fantasizing about leaving... Just dropping everything and going for a long walk and not come back. I imagine I could walk clear across the US. I guess I could be greedy and take my dog with me. I would just have the coat on my back and the wind in my face. But that's just my wanting to run away from something I don't want to think about. I keep thinking I have to do something to move past this point. But I guess it's like Jiro said. I just need to accept it and move on. I have this weird vison of getting to the end and looking back and saying 'what the hell was I thinking, I didn't accomplish anything'. But then reality sets in and I realize there have been a lot of things I did that I am very proud of.

I thought if I could talk about how people change from something like this, then I could see the way forward as well.

Crap, I don't want to post this, but I don't know what else to say.
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All of that is perfectly normal, trust me. If I didn't have kids, I would have sold every thing I own and go backpacking. Seriously.
 
Well - on this run, I need to add-

My FIL had a somewhat short, but drawn out illness that led to death. This was Alzheimer's and cancer. Cancer won out and he died. He was battling the cancer off and on for 12 years and the Alzheimer's for 3 years. He had melanoma that eventually went to the bones and organs.

My maternal grandmother also had Alzheimer's and it was drawn out for 8 years before she finally died.

My maternal grandfather had a series of strokes then after a 6-8 month period, he had a massive stroke that killed him.

My paternal grandmother had a massive heart attack that killed her with no warning. She was fine, then within 10 minutes, she was gone.

My father also had a massive heart attack. He was watching an opera on PBS TV with my mother and all was well. He started coughing and asked her to get him a drink. She stepped 5 steps away to the bathroom and filled a cup, when she got back, he was dead. No warning at all.

We have all in my family thought about mortality Like Jiro says, sometimes the death of a family member will bring it on. Like other's have said, I was brought up to believe that we go to a better place when we die. I have no proof, only what I can read in the bible and have the choice to believe or not. (Not gonna say here as I don't want to start anything.)

I am a firm believer that what will happen, will happen in it's own time. We do not get to always choose the time. (I snuck that in due to suicides) If you have all of your beliefs and "ducks in a row", then there should be no "dithering" over one's mortality.

Just my thoughts on this.
 
rolling7 said:
Since you are good with a dictionary you should look up the meaning of the words: INDUCE, RECRUIT and SHARE

Doing that alone should show I broke no rules.
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I don't need to look them up; you broke the rules. Keep going. Please.

And thanks a lot for derailing this thread multiple times. You are a very popular guy around here.
 
Jiro said:
right but the difference is - you don't write for living.

I've read books written by people similar like you and their books would never have gotten published if it wasn't heavily edited and polished up by professionals.

just saying.
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Even the best authors use editors.

At least they did get published in the end. :)
 
TheWriteAlex said:
Did you ever think that maybe you ought to try using your imagination a little more?
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What puzzles me is how anyone knows what they "believe" without ever having thought about it. In fact,, that is what the OP was all about.
 
TheWriteAlex said:
Interesting. I write on legal pads as well. At least for the rough ideas and story sketches. Allows for a better uninterrupted flow of ideas.

When I write on a computer, there is too much micromanaging. I end up rewriting a paragraph five times. Great for editing, but not for capturing the raw material that makes a story.
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There is a neurological reason for that. Stuff to do with the motor cortex and the frontal lobe. But then, I'm certain you know that because your everyday communication shows a great deal of creativity. That is the way it is with most writers.
 
Hey Cheetah, how was the funeral? Thinking of you today.
 
Cheetah said:
Wirelessly posted (Backberry)

Ummm er, would this be too soon to be completely through the grieving process? I expected this to take longer. I'm sitting here (at the airport picking up a coworker to go to the funeral) and I feel at peace with what has happened. I looked at the 5 stages of grieving and I seemed to have skipped 3 and 4. Should I be concerned or is this normal?
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It is normal. Grieving is not a linear process, even though the steps are described in a linear format. You may skip a step or two, and then go back at some other time and complete them. You may move forward in the steps, only to find yourself going back and repeating a step. You have, evidently, achieved an acceptance of sorts with the death. Just don't be surprised if at some point in the future, you will feel the need to go back and address 3 and 4. They will make your acceptance a permanent emotional state. We can achieve temporary acceptance without what seems to be a lot of effort many times.
 
probably about necrophillacs, stealing bodies and selling to needy necros (ugly rich mayors, politician from around the world) and the funds went to the killing of Kim jong's highly elaborated poisoning plot which succeeded....
sorry this is mental i know...
 
rolling7 said:
Why report it? I've caught you in a lie before. You think it is ok for a member to post a lie about another member on AD? If that is not against the rules of posting it should be.
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Oh, orderlies...the meds are wearing off.
 
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