I was raised thinking life was like a hill. Once you get over the top, the rest is a breeze. Considering I'm still going uphill at my age, I think I'm going to live forever.
Tweaked my back lifting weights 🏋️♂️ 😧
The bad part: I tweaked my back
The good part: I did it lifting weights, and not by bending over to tie my shoes
A quotation from C W Leadbeater
Sometimes people grieve when they find old age coming upon them, when they find their vehicles not so strong as they used to be. They desire the strength and the faculties that they once had. It is wise for them to repress that desire, to realize that their bodies have done good work, and if they can no longer do the same amount as of yore, they should do gently and peacefully what they can, but not worry themselves over the change. Presently they will have new bodies; and the way to ensure a good vehicle is to make such use as one can of the old one, but in any case to be serene and calm and unruffled. The only way to do that is to forget self, to let all selfish desires cease, and to turn the thought outward to the helping of others as far as one’s capabilities go.C. W. Leadbeater (1846-1934) English clergyman, theosophist, author [Charles Webster Leadbeater]
The Masters and the Path, ch. 14 (1925)
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Sometimes people grieve when they find old age coming upon them, when they find their vehicles not so strong as they used to be. They desire the strength and the faculties that they once had. It is wise for them to repress that desire, to realize that their bodies have…
A quotation from Philip Larkin
Perhaps being old is having lighted roomsPhilip Larkin (1922-1985) English poet, novelist, librarian
Poem (1974), “The Old Fools,” High Windows
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I had to write the date on a small sample container (anyone my age will know 🙂).
I could use a pen, but it is a small area and my hand writing is crap at the best of times.
Is it wrong to use a £2k UV cured ink jet printer to print it in OCR-B in the exact space?
Getting old makes everything difficult. I used to be able to change out the battery in my smoke detector with no trouble. But now getting up on the top step of the step stool to get the detector down from the ceiling is difficult and scary, and getting down again even more so.
I took it slow and steady and succeeded. The new battery is supposed to last five years. I wonder if I'll still be able to do it then.
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