See the blog name

I'm just back from a jog round the lake -- carrying a small backpack. Not really small but really light, a couple of kg, just enough to make me notice the extra weight.

I'm in training for a multi-day walk in the Stirling Ranges.

I'm thinking, why do we keep... enjoying ourselves? Why not relax, accept the inevitable, do nothing, give up.

It's a bit gloomy but I'm thinking of dead people.

Years ago there was a man let's call him the Grand Old Man of orienteering. Known and respected in WA, in Australia, possibly in the world. He had a stroke and was dying.

About that time OWA was organising a National carnival. I was going to produce a newsletter on each day of the carnival. I thought that orienteers would like to read the words of the GOM. I also thought it would take the GOM's mind off dying. So I asked him if he would write a few short articles. His answer was to the effect of, "No, go away, I'm too busy dying."

At the time I thought it was a rather poor attitude.

I still think that the GOM had the wrong attitude. While there's life there's -- not hope, not in his case, not in mine -- but there are things to do. If it was worth doing things in the first seventy years -- Why stop now. See the blog name.

So... we're booked on a walking holiday :-)

Then there's another dead man. He had bypasses, stents, whatever. He had always enjoyed running. So he continued to run. Annoyed at himself because he was so much slower. Though the annoying bugger still beat me at every event.

I'm glad that my heart seems to be sound. I don't have the fear (or excuse) that exercise may suddenly kill me. That man had a bad heart -- but he kept running. And died... 

... died in his sleep. while resting.

When I die, I die. Nothing I can do to prevent it. All the treatment is just a delaying tactic. But...

Meanwhile, I'm still alive. So I may as well do the things that a live person does. Slower, perhaps. But there's no reason to stop. Not until I must.

So we're booked for a trail walking holiday. Yes, I'm the weak link :-) But I think I'll enjoy it. Slowly.

And Deb will enjoy it. And that makes it worth doing :-)

I hope to live life as though it's going to last forever -- just the same as everyone else :-)

Gloomy thoughts but... I'm not gloomy. Just analytical. Trying to understand my life. It's what I've always done. No need to stop now, when life is really rather interesting :-)

Dr Nick Lethbridge / Consulting Dexitroboper

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If you're not a part of the solution, then you're part of the vast majority. (Alfred E. Neuman)

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