Gone with all the good things in the world

Bailey 2022-04-23 07:02:01

Maybe this is not the most beautiful look when I grow old, but it is the most I can imagine myself looking like when I grow old.

Forgive my uninhibited indulgence in this life and love freedom. A me who doesn't like to socialize, a me who is always nostalgic for the good times in the past. At that time, maybe I didn't leave any mark in the torrent of the times, maybe I didn't read ten thousand volumes of books, I didn't earn ten thousand family wealth, and I didn't even have children. Parenting.

The ordinary me, wearing my lover's coat, took the "Autumn Leaves" my grandmother gave me, and a few childhood photos, to happily feel the mountains, rocks and trees of this earth, watch the sunset in the clouds and the afterglow, and watch the waves hit in the rain. Reef, watch the bonfire burning in the desert, and listen to the stories of people who are also looking for something on the road.

Because I really like to recall the home where I grew up as a child, the red floor leather, the wedding photos of my parents in the cabinet, the leopard-skin sofa, the charcoal stove for heating in winter, the row in front of the door Row of poplars, plane trees... I remember it all too well.

Recently, I have always been lingering in my heart with the words of Cai Kangyong - "the way to deeply feel life". Wandering, experiencing all the beauty of this world with every sense of the body in wandering is the way we deeply feel life.

When life is most likely a done deal, all that matters, is the touching moments you have deeply experienced through, were true.

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  • Linda: Before I moved into this squeeze inn, I was out looking for work and putting in applications. 2008, and it was just tough. I got to a really really low point. And I thought about suicide. And I decided I was gonna go buy a bottle of booze, turn on the propane stove, and I was gonna drink that booze until I'm passed out. And if I woke up, I was gonna light a cigarette and I was gonna blow us all up. And I looked at my two sweet little trusting dogs, my Cocker Spaniel and my little Toy Poodle. And I... I just couldn't do that to them. And I thought, well, I can't do that to me either. So I was getting close to 62 and I went online to look at my social security benefits. It said $550. Fern, I have worked my whole life. I've worked since I was 12 years old. Raised two daughters. I couldn't believe it. So I'm online and I find Bob Wells' cheap RV living. I could live in a RV. Travel. And not have to work for the rest of my life.

  • Swankie: I'm gonna be 75 this year. I think I've lived a pretty good life. I've seen some really neat things kayaking all of those places. And... You know, like a moose in the wild. A moose family on the river in Idaho and big white pelicans landed just six feet over my kayak on a lake in Colorado. Or... Come around a bin, was a cliff and find hundreds and hundreds of swallow nests on the wall of the cliff. And the swallows flying all around and reflecting in the water. So it looks like I'm flying with the swallows and they're under me, and over me, and all around me. And little babies are hatching out, and eggshells are falling out of the nest, landing on the water and floating on the water. These little white shells. That was like, it's just so awesome. I felt like I've done enough. My life was complete. If I died right then, at that moment, would be perfectly fine.