Life.....!

[redrus]

AIN'T THIS THE TRUTH................ The most unfair thing about life is the way it ends. I mean, life is tough. It takes up a lot of your time. What do you get in the end of it? A death. What's that, a bonus? I think the life cycle is all backwards:

(1) You should die first, you know, start out dead, get it out of the way. You wake up in a an old age home, feeling better every day.

(2) You get kicked out for being too healthy, go collect your pension, then, when you start work, you get a gold watch on your first day.

(3) You work 40 years until you're young enough to enjoy your retirement. You drink alcohol, you party, you're generally promiscuous (hey, you've only got a few years left, what's the big deal?!?) and you get ready for High School.

(4) Then you go to primary school, you become a kid, you play, you have no responsibilities, and, finally, you become a baby;

(5) The last step, you spend your last 9 months floating peacefully with luxuries like central heating, spa, room service on tap, larger quarters everyday, and then...

You finish off as an orgasm!

redrus

[Morden]

Some people have indeed gone out with the last thing that you mention but it must be a bit difficult to say a proper goodbye to ones offspring whilst having an orgasm!

I once worked with a chap who, when he reached 60, bought a new house in a location that he and his wife loved and, being a keen caravanner, bought a new van and car to tow it. The relocation resulted in a tough journey to work and he incurred some big debts to cover his purchases. He said that money would be very tight for 5 years and they would not be able to afford any luxuries but he would be able to look forward to a comfortable retirement at 65. He died of a heart attack at 62.

The lesson has to be 'enjoy each moment that you have'. The future may not come.

[redrus]

Some people have indeed gone out with the last thing that you mention but it must be a bit difficult to say a proper goodbye to ones offspring whilst having an orgasm!

I once worked with a chap who, when he reached 60, bought a new house in a location that he and his wife loved and, being a keen caravanner, bought a new van and car to tow it. The relocation resulted in a tough journey to work and he incurred some big debts to cover his purchases. He said that money would be very tight for 5 years and they would not be able to afford any luxuries but he would be able to look forward to a comfortable retirement at 65. He died of a heart attack at 62.

The lesson has to be 'enjoy each moment that you have'. The future may not come.

Would you not be totally chuffin gutted.

redrus

[sadman]

The lesson has to be 'enjoy each moment that you have'. The future may not come.

Ain't that the truth. I've been to several funerals over the past couple of years, nearly all of my contemporaries or thereabouts. I am 44 years old.

My game plan involves stepping out from my business and receiving a consultancy fee; my pension is payable from when I am 55 but I have made sufficient provision until then. When my son finishes full-time education in 5 years time, I shall be living in LOS full time. My efforts are currently involving preparing for that, but not breaking my back to do so.

I spent many years with the wrong work/life balance, resulting in depression, a failed marriage and loss of half of everything I'd worked for (divorce settlement). Thankfully, I woke up in time to change. I no longer have the big house, the country cottage, change cars every 12 months etc, but I have enough to be comfortable and to travel. I am very lucky. Many of my peers are not so lucky.

[Bung]

Hey redrus,

Where and how did you have this epiphany?

Was there any substances invovled?

It sounds like something that comes to you in a deep meditative state......or maybe after a few too many beers.

[Clip_My_Wings]

Redrus that is probably the most insightful and gloriously inventive thought process i have had the witness and pleasure to read ...

do you think that maybe theres is a planet in the universe with such an evolutionary existence ???maybe Redrus you have existed on such a planet many lives ago ???

Hey redrus,

Where and how did you have this epiphany?

Was there any substances invovled?

It sounds like something that comes to you in a deep meditative state......or maybe after a few too many beers.

[Bung]

I once worked with a chap who, when he reached 60, bought a new house in a location that he and his wife loved and, being a keen caravanner, bought a new van and car to tow it. The relocation resulted in a tough journey to work and he incurred some big debts to cover his purchases. He said that money would be very tight for 5 years and they would not be able to afford any luxuries but he would be able to look forward to a comfortable retirement at 65. He died of a heart attack at 62.

The lesson has to be 'enjoy each moment that you have'. The future may not come.

This reminds me of my Dad, worked hard his whole life and was panning a retirement for when he turned 65 but unfortunatly died at 64..This taught me to enjoy life while you can, I trvelled extensively while I was young and now I am getting older find that I just want to spend time around the house.

[Sir Burr]

It's old hat. Have seen this sketch done by a couple of stand-up comedians on the telly at least twice. Very funny though.

Redrus, maybe you should have stated that it wasn't an original gag by you as some posters seem to think?

[suegha]

Hey Redrus, brilliantly funny

I have had similar thoughts myself. George Bernard Shaw said "Youth is wasted on the young". I think this is brill. If you started life old (dead???) and then got younger, imagine how you would appreciate life! As all those aches and pains left you, your eyesight and hearing improve, you get fitter and faster, etc, etc - Wow, you'd enjoy it.

I don't know about re-entering the womb though, that's just too weird!!! I enjoyed your post.

[Old Croc]

Because efil doesn't mean anything.

[Glauka]

I have though about it once and at the end i realised that you will know all the time when it will finish ( if you don´t die by an accident or illness...), when you reach ten years old you will know that, those are the last ten years...At the same time if you die when you are 60 you will know that you will only live 60 years...I prefer this way, is more exciting...will i be 70,80,90,100...who knows...

[suegha]

I have though about it once and at the end i realised that you will know all the time when it will finish ( if you don´t die by an accident or illness...), when you reach ten years old you will know that, those are the last ten years...At the same time if you die when you are 60 you will know that you will only live 60 years...I prefer this way, is more exciting...will i be 70,80,90,100...who knows...

Interesting post Glauka. There are a few things worthy of note, when you are young (insert your own definition of young) you think you are immortal. The understanding that we will all die comes with age (maturity???).

Also time passes differently as we get older, ironically, it goes quicker! To a ten year old one year is a tenth of their life, to a fifty year old it's a fifthieth! Don't you think that Christmas (or whatever annual event you want) comes around just too quickly? Well, you didn't when you were a ten year old!

I find myself saying more and more, "where did that year go"...

[Glauka]

I have though about it once and at the end i realised that you will know all the time when it will finish ( if you don´t die by an accident or illness...), when you reach ten years old you will know that, those are the last ten years...At the same time if you die when you are 60 you will know that you will only live 60 years...I prefer this way, is more exciting...will i be 70,80,90,100...who knows...

Interesting post Glauka. There are a few things worthy of note, when you are young (insert your own definition of young) you think you are immortal. The understanding that we will all die comes with age (maturity???).

Also time passes differently as we get older, ironically, it goes quicker! To a ten year old one year is a tenth of their life, to a fifty year old it's a fifthieth! Don't you think that Christmas (or whatever annual event you want) comes around just too quickly? Well, you didn't when you were a ten year old!

I find myself saying more and more, "where did that year go"...

I think we are still so young and so many things to do and to feel and to live and to learn...you see if i was going backwards i will know that i just have 30 years left but going forward is a mistery...

Is true that when you are young time seems to go slowlier but if we going backwards we will have all our life experience so time still will pass quickly even more quickly because you know that ther is only 10 years left... gosh this is a tongue- twister. anyway i must go to my dancing lesson see you later....

[suegha]

Yeah, starts getting tough if you think about it too much!!!

Enjoy your dancing...

[redrus]

It's old hat. Have seen this sketch done by a couple of stand-up comedians on the telly at least twice. Very funny though.

Redrus, maybe you should have stated that it wasn't an original gag by you as some posters seem to think?

Definiatly not my original thoughts fella, I guess I just didn't think anyone would really think that they were.

Sorry if I miss-lead anyone.

redrus

[Nignoy]

The lesson has to be 'enjoy each moment that you have'. The future may not come.

Ain't that the truth. I've been to several funerals over the past couple of years, nearly all of my contemporaries or thereabouts. I am 44 years old.

My game plan involves stepping out from my business and receiving a consultancy fee; my pension is payable from when I am 55 but I have made sufficient provision until then. When my son finishes full-time education in 5 years time, I shall be living in LOS full time. My efforts are currently involving preparing for that, but not breaking my back to do so.

I spent many years with the wrong work/life balance, resulting in depression, a failed marriage and loss of half of everything I'd worked for (divorce settlement). Thankfully, I woke up in time to change. I no longer have the big house, the country cottage, change cars every 12 months etc, but I have enough to be comfortable and to travel. I am very lucky. Many of my peers are not so lucky.

As an old fart in Training(just turned 62) survivor of 3 marriages, numerous military cockups and a civilian life working with animals great and small(even survived the croc hunter )Have found in my experience that life really starts at 50!!got fed up with the british workerbee mentality(not ment as an insult it was just the way we felt),were offered a job in OZ so we packed our bags and left, from then on things kept getting better and better , we retired after 4 years, let the life of travel and hobbies begin!!, no more scrimpin and saving , live for each other, do things we want to, of course health problems crop up, but you persevere and think of the next jaunt and adventure, now the clock is ticking, the pacemaker is back on track, busy making plans for next motorbike trip already done bkk to singers and bkk to saigon, doin brissie, cairns ,darwin in march as a warmup for bkk to Peking in august , we are getting younger by the day , who gives a crap if the wrong parts of the body are stiff when we wake up the kids and grand kids are proud of their adventorous oldies, maybe one day I will wake up dead , but we will have lived the life that we chose, dont want to return to a youth of a war ravaged liverpool, ration books rickets and poverty, of course ther were happy memories , but our LIFE is now , Today , more and more of my generation think the same, we may be over 60 but getting younger by the minute.Nignoy

[Glauka]

It's old hat. Have seen this sketch done by a couple of stand-up comedians on the telly at least twice. Very funny though.

Redrus, maybe you should have stated that it wasn't an original gag by you as some posters seem to think?

Definiatly not my original thoughts fella, I guess I just didn't think anyone would really think that they were.

Sorry if I miss-lead anyone.

redrus

I don´t care if it was an original gag or not.. i liked and that´s all what matter to me...I though about it once ( and i haven´t seen anything on tv) so is nice to see what other people think ...

Nice post redrus

I know...

You two get a room!

[redrus]

It's old hat. Have seen this sketch done by a couple of stand-up comedians on the telly at least twice. Very funny though.

Redrus, maybe you should have stated that it wasn't an original gag by you as some posters seem to think?

Definiatly not my original thoughts fella, I guess I just didn't think anyone would really think that they were.

Sorry if I miss-lead anyone.

redrus

I don´t care if it was an original gag or not.. i liked and that´s all what matter to me...I though about it once ( and i haven´t seen anything on tv) so is nice to see what other people think ...

Nice post redrus

I know...

You two get a room!

Er.,,,,,,, ok...........

redrus.

Ps; nice post Nignoy, glad things are on track again. Hope I'm still as active as you when I reach 30. In 6 weeks time.....