by Jack
For all the fantastic opportunities that exist in life it’s an absolute certainty that none of us will live long enough to experience but a mere fraction of them!
Assuming one has made it to an age where contemplation and introspection outweigh our hormones, what’re your top “bucket list” items that you would like to do before it’s game over? None of us wants to check out with too many of the woulda, shoulda, coulda regrets, right? So, if you could what would you do?
Let me narrow this down a little. Lets say you only had six months to live, so how would you spend that time? This reminds me of someone I know who has spent half of her waking life cleaning and organizing. She’s a perfectionist at cleaning and organizing. Her home doesn’t even look lived in, its impressive, super clean, everything has it’s place, etc. But, that comes at a cost…. mostly in personal time. On the other hand, I can’t count the times she has run her (adult) kids off because she had clean. So, do you think she will be lying on her death bed regretting she didn’t get to clean one more time? Or will she regret those times she could have gone to the park with her kids? If you look at my house, it’s pretty clear where my priorities are! lol
Okay, your turn, if you wouldn’t mind sharing? What’s important to you to do before you check out?
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There is only one thing about which I shall have no regrets when my life ends.
I have savoured to the full all the small, daily joys.
The bright sunshine on the breakfast table;
the smell of the air at dusk;
the sound of the clock ticking;
the light rains that start gently after midnight;
the hour when the family come home;
Sunday evening tea before the fire!
I have never missed one moment of beauty,
not ever taken it for granted.
Spring, summer, autumn, or winter.
I wish I had failed as little in other ways.
Agnes Turnbull
Life hands you obstacles
that put you out of place.
Do not run and hide
life is something you need to face.
Live each day with a purpose
Do what you want to do.
Dream big dreams
and fight to make them true.
Life can be wonderful
if you live it right.
Full of happiness
if you put up the fight.
Live it by the moment
even if you jump and fall.
Live your life with no regrets
or you never live at all.
To be perfectly honest, What I have done is already glory years stuff, enjoyed the He!! out of life, if I missed something then it was not to be.
My priority in those 6 months would be fine tuning my estate trust and passing on specific things to those in my life (if there is anything of value)to be used by my family or friends for their futures.
I would be rolling over in a grave if I thought that Government would get their wasteful hands on one cent that would benefit mine and mind alone.
Just remember you asked…….
I live in a squalor better than most of humanities’ dwellings. My dreams are all dead, killed by Stalinists posing as Democrats.
The obituary of Mary Stocks has gone viral, providing more than a few laughs for his family. And it’s no wonder. Stocks wrote a funny, touching tribute to his mother, making complete strangers feel as if they knew the Toronto native.
“She left behind a hell of a lot of stuff to her daughter and sons who have no idea what to do with it,” Stocks wrote. “So if you’re looking for 2 extremely large TV’s from the 90s, a large ceramic stork (we think) umbrella/cane stand, a toaster oven (slightly used) or even a 2001 Oldsmobile with a spoiler (she loved putting the pedal to the metal), with only 71,000 kilometers and 1,000 tools that we aren’t sure what they’re used for. You should wait the appropriate amount of time and get in touch. Tomorrow would be fine.”
Bet Mary Stocks didn’t have a bucket list either!
Stalinists posing as Democrats
Mr.Pie, they are also known as DemoNcrats.
Mr. Pie, inside every DemoN © is a Stalinist struggling to get out.
Well, maybe that was too harsh…that should be DemoNcrat ©
I’ve done all the [exciting] stuff years ago. The funny part is, it seemed so freaking important at the time, now so much. There’s a lesson in there somewhere.
So, what means the most to me now? Well, that’s real simple. It’s my family. We’re a nutty, eccentric, crazy, diverse family. We all have our strong opinions, but you couldn’t drive a nail between any of us, we’re that tight!
Beyond that I have my short term list of things to do of course, but if I failed to do any of them I would still die without regret because I had my family right there until the end. I couldn’t ask for more than that. But, there is more, and the icing on this cake is my friends! I have really, really, really good friends. You know who you are too…yeah, we wouldn’t just help each other hide the body, we would dig the #$%^ hole! Now that’s friendship. ; )
Stalin? Dems? LOL That is every bought out politician.
If I had 6 months I would do as I do now.
Work to get money out of politics. We are not a Democracy we are bought out by domestic and foreign money.
………..The Stalin comment?————-
One can not call anyone Stalinist when they support using government as a tool for business. Add authoritarian rule, like one religion telling all how to live, or Koch platform which the Tea Party presents and you get closer to Stalinist.
Authoritarian Capitalism is what we have. Cops are killing more people than wars here soon. Tell me where else in the world there is a comparable number of people being killed by Police or has a comparable percentage of it’s people in jail. It will not be the name of a Free country.
Profit Prisons have a quota.
Dewey, we can agree that money is having too much influence on politics. Once they get elected we can’t get them out, because they then get the big campaign money to overwhelm a challenger. Not every single time of course, but enough to pervert the democratic process. But, what’s worse is the legislation that comes with taking the bribe money (aka campaign donation). By the way, it’s one heck of a return for the bribee. They might give up $50k, but chances are they will profit by 1000X over, not a bad return on bribe money, eh? Stats say its true, we only have to look.
The election system is broke and we need to fix it. My idea is to set very low spending limits in the primary. We want more people to be encouraged to run for office, so lets make it accessible to people who are not millionaires I think we could get by with the following: Congress $200,000. Senator $350,000. Governor $700,000. President $2M. That’s enough to get their message out. We don’t need a election that lasts more than a 4 months. That’s enough and enough money to get the word out. Plus they get all kinds of free media time too.
I think it’s absolutely nuts what we do now and the costs of running for office keep skyrocketing. Mostly the costs keep going up because of professional consultants, this is not necessary, in fact the voters are often times misled by them. The candidate becomes a created image. But without all that professional backup and advice we voters would get to see the real candidate and that’s what we need more than a glitzy campaign and fake rah-rah speeches full of promises they can’t or won’t keep.