To the best of my ability I write about my experience of the Universe Past, Present and Future
Tuesday, October 4, 2022
I have grown nostalgic lately for the 1950s and early 1960s (when my parents and relatives and friends were still alive)
All that is left now is me and my wife and our children and grandchildren. My father and mother, uncles, aunts and grandparents are all gone. Of course with all of us this is inevitable. Several of my cousins have passed away too. But, one of my cousins I'm still in touch with and visit one or more times a year in southern California who is a very successful lawyer still.
However, I have learned to be adaptable because mostly everyone older than you is going to be gone pretty much before you pass away too (if you live as long as I have so far). I'm presently 74.
There is something about the inane love songs that were sweet and touching in both good ways and bad ways (when people were sad and things didn't work out).
Love makes the world go round. This is true. Luckily, I have always been adaptable no matter what life threw at me so far.
I guess I'm lucky. I come from pioneer stock who came over from Switzerland near Zurich around 1725 on a boat from England up the river then to Philadelphia so I likely had relatives that fought in the Revolutionary war too.
My great grandfather was a captain in the Civil War from Kansas in the Northern Army who then created a pharmacy originally in the 1870s with medicines from local native American Tribes and medicine people. He ran this pharmacy until 1925 when he sold it and retired and lived to the 1940s even though he was also born in the mid 1840s. His wife my great grandmother lived into the 1950s.
My father died in 1985 when I was 37 and one of my best friends died in 2006. My mother died in 2008.
One of the hardest things so far is hearing that a girl I dated when she was 21 and I was 16 just passed away. I had just bought a car (a 1956 Ford Stationwagon) then in 1964 that I called then my Surf Wagon because I was a surfer then and we raced cars on the city streets (my friend's cars). We called it Street racing before it became illegal. So, I was a surfer and street racer then sort of like "American Grafitti(1973).
In fact, in that one year my aunt, my wife's father, one of my female cousins and my mother died all the same year. That was one of the hardest years to live through because of all the deaths that one year.
But, being adaptable and forward thinking you can often live until you are in your 90s or 100s or further.
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