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Getting something more from life than just more aches and pains
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| Posted by: Emory Schley |
2/12/2007 2:20 PM |
I always thought that with old age came a certain degree of wisdom, like in meaning you become smarter. My own actual experience tells me that you don’t necessarily become smarter, but you DO tend to be more cautious – a LOT more cautious!
Tasks I would not have hesitated to tackle as a younger guy now draw a somewhat measured response from me, as in “Do I REALLY want to do this?” And the answer that often springs up somewhere from deep inside is usually, “No, you idiot! Don’t you know you’ll hurt yourself?”
Mental tasks that I used to toy with in my spare time now find their way to completion at a much more plodding pace than they used to. And when I come down with a cold, or a bruise, or a sore throat or whatever, my body seems to take its own sweet time in healing the malady.
But on the other side of the coin, I seem to have developed a much healthier respect for others, and I feel more passion for the afflicted, and I’m much slower to anger than I used to be as a young man.
I have a much deeper appreciation for Nature’s beauty than heretofore, and sometimes a particularly stunning sunset can almost move me to tears, something I would not have allowed to happen when I was 25.
So, who knows? Perhaps you DO develop a bit of wisdom in your declining years, but it’s just so subtle that it’s hard to discern that quality in others. I often wish I had seen the world as I now do, back when I was much younger. Some have said that it’s too bad youth is wasted on the young. And just perhaps that realization may be the beginning of whatever wisdom that’s developed in our advanced years.
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Accuracy Matters |
By Kathy Beaver on
2/11/2007 11:44 AM |
Hey, Emory. I found your blog. All I have to say about today's blog is that, indeed, youth is wasted on the young, but so is education. What I wouldn't give now for the education I passed up after high school.
Can I write here about Saturday's column? Yesterday's column (yep, I didn't read it till today) inspired me to chime in with a snide remark about people complaining about accurate grammar in the S-B. If you're going to gripe about accuracy, make your gripe accurate! Mary Jones complained about grammar (a hopeless cause), which wasn't wrong in the first place. The commas were where they belonged and it wasn't dead people not returning calls. Quoting the article from February 1, 2007: "Lamannas pleaded for privacy, 'Keep us anonymous and leave us alone,' they said. Police did not release the names of Odette Lamanna's parents, who are both dead, and did not return several phone calls from the AP."
Nothing at all wrong with that sentence (surprise!) and it was the police not returning calls, not the dead parents. The commas were there, where they belonged, and not "lost" at all. But I guess Mary's gripe gave you something to put in your column yesterday!
Keep up the good work! I'll be watching you! Kathy
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By Kathy Beaver on
2/11/2007 11:54 AM |
| Oops! Color me red faced! I forgot what started my rant in the first place. Mary Jones said the baby was found in an attic! Not so. It was a storage unit. Technically, this is not an inaccuracy on my part, but an oversight. Small distinction, but I'm sticking with it! When I looked up the article to verify that it was, indeed, a storage unit and not an attic, I found the other error she pointed out that wasn't an error! Geeze! |
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