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[Lindsays Grandma]

Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty well preserved body, but rather the plan is to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming WOW what a ride.

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[tansy]

Are we still on for sky diving this weekend?  😀

[Lindsays Grandma]

tansy...you bet, that's part of the WOW what a ride!!!!

[Desertdi]

The quote pretty well sums me up........the problem is; most people think I have a screw loose.

[Preds]

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@Desertdi wrote:

The quote pretty well sums me up........the problem is; most people think I have a screw loose.

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Do as I do ... prove them right!  LOL  It's a lot of fun.

[CelticCrafter]

That was my brothers favorite quote!

[blackhole99]

If you don't or can't enjoy life, what's the point ! I'm not a risk taker, but I do enjoy all the things that make life worth living to me.

[Karnerblue]

Everyone has a different perception of life.  Whatever yours is, live it well.

[silkyk]

Your post remindes me of a favorite poem of mine. It was also a favorite of Jacqueline Kennedy...I think it was read at her memorial service. The same wonderful idea about life!

Ithaka

By C. P. Cavafy

Translated By Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard

As you set out for Ithaka

hope your road is a long one,

full of adventure, full of discovery.

Laistrygonians, Cyclops,

angry Poseidon—don’t be afraid of them:

you’ll never find things like that on your way

as long as you keep your thoughts raised high,

as long as a rare excitement

stirs your spirit and your body.

Laistrygonians, Cyclops,

wild Poseidon—you won’t encounter them

unless you bring them along inside your soul,

unless your soul sets them up in front of you.

Hope your road is a long one.

May there be many summer mornings when,

with what pleasure, what joy,

you enter harbors you’re seeing for the first time;

may you stop at Phoenician trading stations

to buy fine things,

mother of pearl and coral, amber and ebony,

sensual perfume of every kind—

as many sensual perfumes as you can;

and may you visit many Egyptian cities

to learn and go on learning from their scholars.

Keep Ithaka always in your mind.

Arriving there is what you’re destined for.

But don’t hurry the journey at all.

Better if it lasts for years,

so you’re old by the time you reach the island,

wealthy with all you’ve gained on the way,

not expecting Ithaka to make you rich.

Ithaka gave you the marvelous journey.

Without her you wouldn't have set out.

She has nothing left to give you now.

And if you find her poor, Ithaka won’t have fooled you.

Wise as you will have become, so full of experience,

you’ll have understood by then what these Ithakas mean.

[Lindsays Grandma]

silkyk...Beautiful, thank you for sharing this with us.