The letter writer of "Pawpaw Didn’t Need A Doctor" makes a point I can agree with. Seems to me many people today don’t know when to step aside or to accept the inevitability of age — gracefully. Death comes to us all sooner or later.
Wikipedia says more than 100 billion people have ever lived and that eight billion are alive today. So, about 92 billion people have lived and died. There’s nothing, outside of our own minds, that makes any one of us more special than another. No amount of anything-to-stay-forever-young-and-healthy measures will change this and, in the end, we’re all the same — dead and, for the most part, forgotten.
I see the day coming when people will attempt to defy death by creating interactive, AI-based avatars to live on and on, and continue to meddle in affairs and lives long after they’re gone. What is it with some people? What ever happened to “grace,” as in “graceful” ways to do this or that? Like the letter writer, I also remember the days when aging athletes, business icons, and family members gracefully stepped aside to make way for those behind them. Seems to me that these former times, like the dead, are behind us.
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Take a few moments to thoughtfully consider who among us should gracefully step aside and ask yourselves, “What is it that drives these people to frantically cling to everything?”
Ask yourself another question: “What will be your absolutely last thought as you step (or, for some, are yanked) to join the other 92 billion?”
Will you live and leave gracefully?
PATRICK LYNSKEY
Lynchburg