[Sca-cooks] Getting old...
Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius
adamantius.magister at verizon.net
Thu May 18 09:24:28 PDT 2006
On May 18, 2006, at 9:26 AM, marilyn traber 011221 wrote:
> What IS this getting old crap, guys? Adamantius, you haven't even
> hit your
> first half century yet.
>
> So, you can't keep up with people in their 20s or 30s? So what? How
> many
> people in their 20s and 30s can keep up with a 2 year old?
>
> Doesn't make any of us weak, just strong in different areas.
I think perhaps you're misunderstanding the standard against which
I'm measuring myself. It has nothing to do with anyone else, and I'm
not grousing about it, just acknowledging the reality of it. And it
is by acknowledging reality that one succeeds...
> Only person you need to keep up with is yourself. It's when you
> give up on
> that, you're getting old.
Not planning on doing that...
A.
"S'ils n'ont pas de pain, vous fait-on dire, qu'ils mangent de la
brioche!" / "If there's no bread to be had, one has to say, let them
eat cake!"
-- attributed to an unnamed noblewoman by Jean-Jacques Rousseau,
"Confessions", 1782
"Why don't they get new jobs if they're unhappy -- or go on Prozac?"
-- Susan Sheybani, assistant to Bush campaign spokesman Terry
Holt, 07/29/04
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