DailyThought #46 - Good Company

Everyone’s life will eventually become surrounded by death, until it is your own. As my grandparents have grown into their later years (thankfully), they have came to outlive most of their friends. Everyone that has known them the longest now has no more stories to share or laughter to give, only left the memories of the life they led. This is disheartening but inevitable.

I have always pictured myself growing old, but I try to stop picturing. I try to stop expecting. Stop betting. Not because I don’t want to live a long life, but because I want to live a full one. And that can’t happen if I am caught up in what hasn’t happened. But what I can control, is what is happening. What is happening now. What I can make happen.

Through hard times, I surround myself with good company. I try to learn from those who have lived, so maybe they can add to what I’ve got to offer. If they have made it this far, maybe I can take a few notes. I notice when I reject those who care about me, I lose myself. I lose myself in myself. It doesn’t make to much sense, but everyone is familiar with that feeling. Our minds are vicious and relentless. It is in the hard times we need to listen to others, so then in the good time we have ourselves.

I Got No Life (Wells’ Song)