Posted on 03/13/2020 11:33:22 AM PDT by blueunicorn6
When I was a young man, I had a class where our teacher would start the class with a discussion on some great phrase or thought.
He started one class with a discussion on an elderly man pulling weeds in his garden.
Two young men came walking by and saw the elderly man pulling weeds. They thought to have some fun with him.
“Sir! What would you be doing right now if you knew you were going to die tonight?”
The elderly man didn’t even look up and continued pulling weeds.
“I would finish weeding my garden.”
Our teacher asked us to discuss this episode.
No one raised their hand.
I finally raised my hand.
“I think that what the elderly man was saying was that he wasn’t worried. He had thought about his life. He had priorities, and he lived them.
He was doing exactly what he wanted to be doing at that time and he wasn’t afraid of the future.”
The Coronavirus can come or it can go.
I will finish weeding my garden.
If I knew I was going to die tomorrow I would try crystal meth.
But that’s just me.
Would get my affairs in order. More so than what I'm trying to do now.
There will be growth in the spring.
Well that makes my use of crystal meth sound selfish :-) it’s nothing I would ever try because I’ve heard it’s phenomenally addicting. Unless I knew I would die tomorrow because then I would just be addicted for a day :-)
As far as getting my affairs in order, my family can split my debt :-)
You’re the Italian fellow who drove cabs and grew up with the Mafia, aren’t you?
You couldn’t possibly be afraid of Coronavirus.
LMAO! That’s one way to beat the withdrawals.
Okaaay, Mr. Gillum.
I have my own fears and they are not few. But this thing isn’t even in the top 100 right now.
Funny side comment.
I was talking to a 70 year old doc one day. The conversation came around to drug abuse. He said, “Under 25, you would be an idiot to take any drugs. After 70...why not try them ALL?
I tend to think along those lines. Not gonna try meth, though. I like my teeth.
Nuh-uh. Gonna go out and buy me a case of (as we called it in the Army) sh*t paper.
Being There....................
You also lived your life so you could have a Dodge Challenger, didn’t you?
Sounds like you knew what you wanted and worked for it and probably overcame a lot of concerns.
Take them out and put them in the water glass first...........
Top 100. A lovely bit o irony there, mate.
And I do really enjoy driving that car.
Cars and women. Two things that can make you feel like you’re 20 again.
Implants. One at a time. What a pain in the ass THAT was. Still have most of the original model.
The LAST thing you want during the apocalypse is dental issues.
Unless you are Hemingway no one knows the day or the hour.
He is involved in a minor car crash, and he’s sitting in a hospital on an examination table while a young doctor tends to a cut on his face. The doctor tells him that he’s lucky to be alive.
“How old are you, sonny?” he asks.
“I’m 28,” the doctor says.
The Eastwood character growls at the young doctor: “Then how the hell would you know that I’m lucky to be alive?”
LOL.
A wise Sergeant (aren’t they all) once told me how to use a single sheet of toilet paper. You had to stick your middle finger through the middle of the sheet.
“Improvise. Adapt. Overcome.”
He wasn’t afraid of the future.
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