a letter to a friend
a friend...
‘hey, hows it going ?’
‘haven’t see you in ages, how are the kids ?’
‘how old ?!’
‘cool.’
‘hows mom and dad ?’
‘really ?’
‘sounds happy’.
‘and you ?’
‘you worked hard for that.’
‘not easy.’
‘happy ?’
“yeah, but”
‘the watchman, is watching closer.
more rules, less business’ - “yeah”
“but whaddya do ?”
“the apathy is appalling”
‘the resignation is worse.’
“so what are you doing ?”
“working ?”
‘the job I took after school, so long ago
my own bizniz now, but yeah’
“still ?”
‘its been good to me
Im good at it, Im considered Sr. now.’
“happy ?”
‘yeah, all in all.’
“hows your Mom?”
‘she’s in Chilliwack
retired,
doing what she does,
whatever she wants to do, really.’
‘I think she’s happy.’
‘She’s been there a while,
not interested in moving
life is good, relatively.'
'Im going to buy a place for her to live in
where she can be comfortable and carry on.
a place she can call,
home.'
"that's cool"
'Yeah,
I’m not that old
I have no idea what its like not to have to...
-whatever-?'
'having lived for a long time as a single person,
I expect the gist is close'
...leaving the coffee cup there and 3 weeks later...there it is.
'but, getting older ?'
'I dont even feel my age now, mentally.
there are aches,
there are some surprise moments to come
and many I will have to just stop and wonder'
'being older,
I expect there are many more things to wonder about
unlike any time in your life,
I expect, you have time to wonder
and consider. and reconsider.
both the future and the past.'
'your own home to do that in,
is.
one less thing to wonder about.
its a big one.'
'nevertheless,
Im sitting on my accomplishments of last year
learning about what they really are.
that requires my time, this year.
my undivided attention, really.'
'my undivided attention.’
“Well, can’t argue with that and you’re right, you can’t know, really, what its like to be older.
Not yet. You’re not there and you still wont feel your age, mentally, when you do get old.
I like your need to understand what you have accomplished. What happens when you do that ?”
‘ I’ll have more to consider and wonder about when I get old.’
'...and there it is -
an enormous maintenance contract,
put food on my table, snacks and smokes in my hand
Always have some time for wine, a bottle full of wonder, and ideas.'
'Conversation and a glass of wine, ahhh !'
'In my own home, when I get older. Not much more is needed.'
'what does my Family need?'
'can I help'
'Call it fixed costs, now.'
'passive income later'
'much'
'I will stop working when I get old enuf...
I'll have enough to see me through.
No idea how long I'm going to live,
but, the genetics are reasonable.'
'Well, I wanted to drop you a note,
Haven't seen you in ages.'
'let's get together when you're in town. ?'
'I like to write letters, once in a while.
Gives me a taste of the past,
a lost direction for the future,'
...a bunch of crock... ?
never underestimate the power of a group of like minded people to change the course of history,
indeed,
it is the only thing that ever has.
- unknown quote
Good Morning !
behave, be good, be you !
ps, write sometime.
