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- Title: Falling
- Author : William H. Watson
- Release Date : January 01, 2013
- Genre: Family & Relationships,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 14464 KB
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Turning sixty-five offered the promise of retirement and endless stretches of time to re-discover my inner soul, take long bicycle rides, reflect on my accomplishments and failures, and time to be with friends and family with no sense of urgency to job or other obligations. It made large openings in my life to explore new ideas and activities.
Now, well past seventy, the next door opens to my mortality and the short stretch of time before death. It is the last wicket in a croquet game, not quite over, but definitely on the wain. The reminders are everywhere: friends suffering from the diseases of aging, complaints of restless legs, arthritis joint pain, and a loss of energy and enthusiasm for life. And the funerals.
Somewhere in my life’s arc I passed a point where I can no longer say I am still young, middle aged, senior, or even “young at heart.” It wouldn’t take much, maybe a subtle hunch in the shoulders, a hesitation to answer a simple question, a struggle for the right word, or a watering of the eyes to pass into the realm of the elderly, or maybe less forgiving words like “old man.”
It’s our universal fait, and there’s comfort in that, but it doesn’t mean that I have to accept my passing life without some reflection or effort to make sense of it. The meaning of life still eludes our best thinkers, to me, suggesting that it is really something very personal and not a universal truth.
And so, this collection of essays is my musing about what I know about life, and what I think about dying. Don’t look in these lines for your truth; you'll have to find you own way to the other side. From what I learned so far, and late in life, the path is all about your family and the people in your immediate world. These are the people who call me Bill and smile when they see me.
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