Aging.

[MiamiJacket84]

Sometimes I think about that. I'm currently fairly young, however, my general health is very poor mainly because of bad asthma and years of bullshit psychiatric medications.

When I think about growing old though, I just can't comprehend it. How can anyone be okay with that? People around me sometimes fascinate me for a lot of different reasons, usually because of ignorant bliss that comes with not thinking about life too much, but this is different. Why do people want to live like that? Are they forced to? It looks like it in son cases but not always.

Genuinely enjoying life and wanting to live in general is already very difficult to comprehend for me but this? It just baffles me.

I mean no offence to any seniors here, I genuinely just want to know, why are you here?

[mrmonk]

To try to write a poem that is even a small fraction as artful as, say, this one written (and read below) by Philip Larkin:

youtu.be/DaRMcCa1e-k?si=aKG...(Not working as expected?)

[Arymretep]

We might ask you the same question, why are you here?

[MiamiJacket84 in reply to Arymretep]

It's more about my unfortunate incapability to end things myself rather than an actual specific reason to live for.

[Arymretep]

Thankfully some of us do have a reason to live for , I hope you can find one too 👍

[MiamiJacket84 in reply to Arymretep]

What would that be?

[Arymretep]

That’s up to you

[MiamiJacket84 in reply to Arymretep]

I meant yours.

[Arymretep in reply to MiamiJacket84]

Ah right, I have someone who I don’t want to leave , maybe I’m lucky but I know many our age , 70’s who feel the same , they want to be together to the very end

[SSBR]

I planned to live hard and die young but now that I am here I have not died. I feel trapped, fear of ending it, fear of going on.