I'm gonna enjoy life to the fullest

[vercetti2021]

Be who I am. Do what I'm doing now. I'm gonna enjoy the beauty and happiness life has to offer. Last few days seems to be all but we are doomed and we are screwed. So be it if we fall in the future we will fight to the death to save our nation. But now? Never knowing what can happen. Just go out for a walk, cook a nice dinner, go on a road trip, tackle some of that bucket list. I plan on it. Might as well enjoy time left as we have it to enjoy living life. I implore everyone else to just enjoy it before it becomes a thing of the past.

[Tetrachloride]

1. I achieved several items on my bucket list.

The latest was 2 days ago.

[XanaDUer2]

3. What was it? Nt

[Tetrachloride]

6. Bought a winter hat as a gift. Until this month, they had never seen snow.

Previously , i paid for school supplies.

And paid for a day nurse for a very elderly lady who was refusing food. It turns out the family called for a doctor who set up a sucrose IV.

[XanaDUer2]

7. How lovely

[vercetti2021]

4. Ohhhh?

What was it

[Tetrachloride]

5. I was able to buy a winter hat for a neighborhood friend without protestations of "its too much "

Previously , i paid for school supplies.

And paid for a day nurse for a very elderly lady who was refusing food. It turns out the family called for a doctor who set up a sucrose IV.

[vercetti2021]

8. Those little things matter

Always do

[Atticus]

2. Thank you. To quote Charles Emerson Winchester (on "M.A.S.H." ):

"You lowered a bucket into the well of my despair and you raised me up to the light of day."

I will take a walk in the snow tomorrow.

[OldBaldy1701E]

9. That is awesome.

I am glad you can do so. Some of us are literally the walking dead (well, I am anyway).

[dlk]

10. Words to live by

[Oneironaut]

11. +1 - Well said!

Something eventually kills you. We are all temporary, and what we do with our lives matters. Hopefully those in the future will enjoy the same, if not more freedom than we have now.

This country is still worth fighting for.

[Oneironaut]

12. The Gettysburg Address

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.


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Those men fought and died on those fields so that we could be free. We are still a country of brave, fine people. I believe it.

[Stuart G]

18. Brilliant Post. I don't think I have seen that here before...That fellow could really write..

Thanks for posting...K & R

[oasis]

29. +1,000,000

[Mr. Evil]

13. Hell yeah!

I spent the better part of this evening listening to (and watching on youtube) a plethora of Japanese Metal bands. They rule! LOVEBITES, Babymetal, Unlucky Morpheus, etc., Great bands and even greater musicians! I'm happy!

[vercetti2021]

20. Interesting!

I'm gonna have to listen later tomorrow!

[Calculating]

37. Nice

Music has always been a good way to cope with the world.

[Initech]

14. As soon as this COVID nightmare is finally over I am traveling like there's no tomorrow.

[relayerbob]

15. Despite all the gloom and doom ....

There's no guarantee that's going to happen. The Trump organization looks to be about to get clobbered and even the GOP is finally starting to run away. The Dems, as a whole are looking relatively good for a midterm, at least right now, and no knows what things will be like in November. Negative thinking can result in self-fulfilling prophecies, so better to stay positive and work for a better tomorrow, while enjoying what we have in the here and now.

[Stuart G]

16. Thank You for posting...K and R..

[MerryBlooms]

17. Me too. I meet really nice people every week...

On my last grocery shopping trip, I had a few heavy things in my cart; 30lb bag of kibble for baby raccoons, 2 20lbs cat litter, and 16lb bag of special diet cat food for our indoor kitties. A very nice man walking into the store asked if he could load them into my trunk, and then his wife said "We'll take your cart too, hon.". I thanked them and promised I would pass on their good deed. I had the opportunity to do just that the next day. Helped a man outside our local quick store who was counting his change. I asked if he could use a few dollars, and gave him my last $12 in my wallet. I hardly ever carry cash, but it worked out that day.

I have always believed there is more good than bad, I refuse to give up. I can't give in to the negative and hopelessness, what would be the point of life? I've been through too much to give in to doom and gloom!

[Raine]

19. Great advice! 👍🤗 nt

[electric_blue68]

21. I'm going to have as much fun at home, seek beauty in Nature & Human Creativity through photos .

And once frikkin' covidc is damped down to endemic stage be together with family, friends, and in the parks, and gardens once the weather is warmer again!

The last about 3 1/2 months have put a damper on my own creative outputs. I think I finally feeling a bit of an urge to get back to it!

I will continue to be the usually kind, often helpful person in the little ways I do.

I will do my best to fight for our democracy. Yeah, I have had my brief, semi-rare spates of hopelessness.

•But St Yogi said "It ain't over, till it's over"
•And a historian said (approx) "Things go along - until they don't".

And while some see a unstoppable slide into fascism, I usually do not for the above reasons.

[vercetti2021]

23. Where are you?

That sounds like a great time!

[electric_blue68]

24. I'm in NYC...

so while we don't have totally wild nature near us like some of our fellow DU'rs we do have beautiful big parks, and some sweet smaller ones. Plus the Botanical Gadens.

Well, you probably know something about NYC. Restaurants galore, I can eat out once or twice a month (not until it's warm enough to sit outside again as long as covid goes on). I would probably eat out a bit more once I stop eating so much take out these past 2 years, and get back to cooking (I used be good).

Museums Art, Nature & others. I get artisric inspiration from all that! Out door sculptures, free or low cost concerts. Wonderful events in warm weather.
I'm on a lower retired income so there events I can't afford, occasionally frustrating but I find a lot to enjoy.

I also love walking around the city which has been a frustrating lack of these past two years.

The cities that I'd would have been probably pretty comfortable in during this pandemic other than NYC would be San Fransisco, Philadelphia, DC, and while I've never been to these - Chicago and Seattle. 👍

[vercetti2021]

27. NYC is my bucketlist

Its number 2! I'm coming this next winter of 22 hopefully. For the holidays!

[electric_blue68]

39. Cool! You'll love it. It's so pretty.

[moonscape]

34. Lived in NYC in the 70's on a

low-paying job salary and couldn’t afford much. But, I was amazed how much free stuff there was w/ fabulous concerts in the park, super cheap off-broadway theater, arts, hung out in
Central Park, etc. Such a great city that still has a massive chunk of my heart.

[electric_blue68]

40. Glad you were able to enjoy it.

[Kaleva]

22. I'm 63 and have the attitude my best years are still ahead of me.

I'm already excited about spring and being able to work in the garden which I talk about here. Next week I'll be tutoring a couple of the grandchildren during the week, making sure they do their assigned homework as the local school has been shut down due to covid. This Sunday my stepdaughter is coming over to show me how to make pasties the way she does. It's been close to 50 years since the last time I made them so I'd say I'm a bit rusty.

[malaise]

25. A group of us walk four days a week

around a reservoir - we enjoy the water, trees, wild flowers, birds and of course the good vibes from one another. Last Sunday some of us headed to an open air restaurant in Port Royal for a late afternoon seafood lunch.

Great post - enjoy life!

[malaise]

26. A group of us walk four days a week

around a reservoir - we enjoy the water, trees, wild flowers, birds and of course the good vibes from one another. Last Sunday some of us headed to an open air restaurant in Port Royal for a late afternoon seafood lunch.

Great post - enjoy life!

[betsuni]

28. Tomorrow's my husband's birthday. He was born at home.

Poor family. Doomed and screwed? No. That's life. A nice walk, good dinner, something to enjoy. That's life.

[skip fox]

30. Sobering

This attitude might be the one to adopt in the face of all that's coming.

Trying to maintain the life of creative engagement in the face of certain decline.

In a way it's pathetic, but we're here. Ready to fight but ready to live as bet as possible as well.

[Roisin Ni Fiachra]

31. Yep. Road trip/camping trip next week to 3 Bucket List destinations.

Personal philosophy has always been "do it today, for tomorrow I may die".

Wonderful memories, no regrets.

[dwayneb]

32. Agree with that philosophy, but...

While you and I are enjoying our last sweet days of freedom, remember what Winston Churchill once said:

"This is the lesson: never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy."

I would say that our confrontation with evil isn't something that will happen in the future, the battle for our democracy is here and it is now.

[vercetti2021]

38. I see it

Doing what I can now as we do not know what will happen in the next 5 years. Call it last right to life before hell occurs

[Midnight Writer]

33. I spent the first 30 years of my life trying to be the person other people wanted me to be.

Then I had an epiphany. It wasn't working out for me and I was not happy.

After that, I tried to live in a way that suited me and made me happy. Even if everybody else thinks I'm an oddball.

I don't hurt anybody, I just do my own thing.

40 some years later, I am living through the happiest years of my life.

[moonscape]

35. I'm finally doing this, but it took a major unplugging

from news to get here. I still look at headlines here but read very few articles/details because they trigger me to despair vs something constructive and my mental health was pretty shaky the last 5 years. Stopped watching news, reading papers, and this is a big deal for me. Have been a lifelong junkie but needed to feel some peace.

Got back into nature and am going on several hikes a week which is another big deal because of health challenges and physical limitations. But am now up to 6-mile hikes with some elevation, constant progression, and focused on whole body health. My depressed self had been ignoring me!

[prodigitalson]

36. I concur. I'm going to Mexico to visit relatives I haven't seen since the

pandemic started. I'm also learning basic Turkish and plan to spend a month or so in Turkey since for once I have a job I can do from anywhere...yeah I know the situation there but it's really cheap now and I have always wanted to go. I'm going to run a 10k for the first time, play my guitar and read some classics old fashioned analog book style. If Trump comes to power in 24 I'm fluent in Spanish and have 10 grand I'll transfer to a Panamanian or Costa Rican bank and apply for permanent residency and maybe eventually citizenship.

I am planning for the worst but hoping for the best. In the meantime I will live in the moment and count my blessings. A cancer scare earlier this year really focused my mind.