Serious John: I think it is all about some kind of balance as we go from 'go to whoa'...and we do go, and we do 'whoa' quite well. We don't have to worry at all about the 'whoa'...nature has us all lined up, before we came in. Nature, unlike us, knows exactly what she is doing...and she has us pinned.

you know, at 63, if I hadn't been born mortal, you know, I'd still choose it. For some odd reason, I seem to be a being pretty happy with my own short Shining Path..and one of the main reasons that I'm happy with it is that it is quite short in the scheme of things. Mind you, its taken me awhile. It is probably why I am quite okay at caring for the young who desire to suicide...'well, you never know, if you live, you may like more of it than you know just now...but, for sure, the gig itself is fucking dubious at best and there's nothin much that changes much about the pointlessness and stupidity and the suffering of the world, except you, as time goes by...'

you know, at 63, if I hadn't been born mortal, you know, I'd still choose it. For some odd reason, I seem to be a being pretty happy with my own short Shining Path. Mind you, its taken me awhile. It is probably why I am quite okay at caring for the young who desire to suicide...'well, you never know, if you live, you may like more of it than you know just now...but, for sure, the gig itself is fucking dubious at best and there's nothin much that changes much about the pointlessness and stupidity and the suffering of the world, except you, as time goes by...'

you know, at 63, if I hadn't been born mortal, you know, I'd still choose it. For some odd reason, I seem to be a being pretty happy with my own short shining path. Mind you, its taken me awhile.

yes yes i think the combination of the Remington hair cutter, so you can cut down to almost zero the natural baldness each day as you shave the part of your face that is not 'in goatee' is the best plan for appearances at 63... it is a funny thing that us white men, when born as little babies, do look usually so sweetly rotund and round faced and hairless, and when we get to the middle and old years, we approach the same generic innocence exactly in the way we look. Well done nature, well done indeed.

AGE: the only thing we are all doing together. I think that for a fair enough time in life you do have to face challenges and draw yourself up to be that person who faced those challenges...in some of the challenges, your success was exemplary, as is natural and personal enough, and some, well, you failed...as is natural and personal enough. What we have done in life has been done well enough. The amazing thing is, is that, for this world, and where we came from, we bothered to care at all, at all. Yet, it is by building this bridge of care over those long years that the young can travel over it now and find their own way....but mind you, I expect that they will still have no idea what they are doing...and I think that's pretty fucking obvious.

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