From: oldwifetale@yahoo.com   
      
   On Thursday, May 14, 2015 at 12:48:53 PM UTC-7, cri...@arcor.de wrote:   
   > "oldwifetale"  schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:   
   >    
   > These are only the absurd ravings of someone living below the "poverty   
   level". I've been thinking a lot about my mortality lately.    
   >    
   > Yes, I too. Do you think that there is a reason why we became born? That   
   each one has a purpose he has to fulfil?   
      
   I do. Not so much because of what i've been taught, but because of experiences   
   i've had in life, things i've seen and/or perceived first-hand (directly).   
      
      
   >    
   > That happens sometimes when you're getting old, and have suddenly lost your   
   mate, and your home, and your primary income, and your belongings, and your   
   health. But i'm rich because i have a large extended family and people who   
   love me. My home is a    
   travel trailer, but it's a dry place with a roof over my head. I don't go to a   
   doctor because i'd rather use my money to live on. My choice. That's the only   
   "old way" i know about right now. Even when i'm poor, it's not my "number one   
   focus". I have    
   other things to give.    
   >    
   > If my poverty (which may or may not be permanent) became everyone's main   
   focus of attention... i wouldn't like that very much, to be honest. Every   
   human being deserves a little dignity, unless they're flat-out evil. I'm more   
   than my ability to    
   physically survive, and so are you. So is everyone. No one likes to be reduced   
   to an 'issue'.   
   >    
   > You think i'm kidding or making fun of you? No. I'm bringing up immortality   
   because everyone wants to live forever, or acts like they're going to. But no   
   one ever does. One day you're talking to them, the next day they're gone.    
   >    
   > There was this old man I sometimes talked with. Somehow he remembered me a   
   little bit at my Grandfather and he was a little sunshine in all the dark   
   there.   
   > Then did I hear that he died. The next day appeared this soldier...he said   
   that he gave this old man his word to care of his matters...That   
   > did impressed me much...I will never forget this.   
      
   When someone you love dies... it's like you want to... do things that you know   
   would be important to that person. It's like when my husband would call his   
   mother every week on a certain day at a certain time. She is in her 90s now...   
   her grandmother was    
   Cherokee and had been on the Trail of Tears. This hit her hard, but the worst   
   day was that day when his call didn't come, so... i have been calling her   
   every week on that day, at that time, and i've promised to continue to do so.   
   I know that he would    
   want me to do that. Now, after several months, she waits for *my* call, and   
   i'm able to do that (for him / for her / for me) because he can't. I'm the   
   only person in the world who wants to hear every little thing she has to say   
   about him, week after week.   
    I'm glad this man impressed you, but really... that is what love is. You'll   
   know when it's someone close to you.   
      
      
   >    
   > It hurts. You know? But that's what life is, it's constantly changing. All   
   these... laws... that you're talking about. Even if everyone 'obeyed' them,   
   eventually things would change again, and everyone would be breaking the laws,   
   and we'd right back    
   here where we are now.    
   > The only answer is empathy, love, compassion, kindness... aspects of   
   humanity that people either have and cultivate, or they don't.    
   >    
   > I fear, the most of humanity haven't cultivate it. Insanity rules the world.   
      
   Well... it's huge (even ginormous), but it doesn't actually *rule*. :)   
      
   I will respond to your other post a little later when time permits.   
      
      
   >    
   > There is no law that can ever *make* someone kind, it can only force their   
   actions. Without sincerity, they're just going through the motions to appear   
   kind, and that never endures. Sooner or later, the real person is going to   
   come through. Law or no    
   law.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)