2 days of vacation...
After I got home from our shopping expedition, did some laundry and some knitting. Our neighbor had invited us for dinner so we had to primp up a little for the occasion. The restaurant was very good The Ashmont Grill but the weather was brutally cold, Nothing that a good drink won't cure.
Slept very well last night and today is R&R to the max. Hopefully my computer from work will arrive today, although I am not hopeful. Beside that, a little mopping, a lot of knitting and of to the movies this afternoon. We are going to see The Queen. OH SHUCH.. the other queen, you know the one in England!
posted by mima @ 10:03 AM
4 Comments:
Dear Mima,
As you know I am prone to philosophical musings, especially about matters relating to our nature. Therefore, I feel an urge to respond to your earlier question "...if I could know, would I like to know what kind of death I will have?" Here are my thoughts.
Firstly, I think I would rather not know when I'm going to die; I think our psychic makeup demands that we engage life as if we are immortal. However, if life deals me with the predicament you face -- i.e. having to renounce the innocence of immortality and being fully aware of how much time I have left -- then I think I would like to know as much as possible about the quality of my physical condition during the time I have left, including how I will die. Why? Because the only possible consolation from being in such a predicament is the ability to decide and define, to whatever extend is possible, the conditions at the end.
Yours truly,
Gastón
To add one more sentence to the "Cuban Confucius" :-) and be able to determine how much fun I have to put into how much time ;-)
Remember, life is simple people complicated.
The "Puerto Rican Confucius"
El Nene Lindo
Live as if you will die tomorrow.
Learn as if you will live forever.
-- Mahatma Ghandi
Knowledge is power, when used wisely as you well know!
Time on the other hand we have no control over.
You get 1 trip around the sun, make the best of it.
Knowing, well kind of knowing how long, can change a persons judgement but not their character.
"Follow your heart & you will arrive happy & with no regrets. Maybe some tasks left undone but that falls into the time we have no control over."
--Pop, 2 days before he passed.
Me, I would want to know, when not how...that could divert my plans & I would miss some of the happiness I longed for.
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