mardi 4 novembre 2014

Dead man walking

This isn't about executions its about being in the presence of someone you feel is going to die and then it happens.



I'm 67 and back in 2000 I was visiting a friend I had not seen in a few years. He had gained an enormous amount of weight and he smoked. He smoked a lot in fact and he was one of those smokers who blew smoke in copious amounts out of his nose. I made this remark. "You and I aren't getting any younger so why don't we lose some weight and you quit that smoking"? He said " I enjoy it".



He was a 18 wheeler and he was found dead of a heart attack in his truck a month later. I was a pall bearer at his funeral.



I was sitting at a bar and this overweight young man with diabetes was knocking down one beer after another. When I said why are you drinking with diabetes he just laughed. I went to the same pub the very nest week and he had died. A Mexican friend did the same thing.



A gay co worker who had a drinking problem made a fool out of himself at a company party and I tried to talk to him after his life partner had beat the crap out of him. I said its one thing to be gay but its another thing to be a drunk. He and his partner both succumbed to aid about a year later.



I look int my mirror to see if my time has come and it hasn't. I drink lightly, exercise a bit, never smoked and I eat lots of fruit and veggies. I eat meat only sparingly. My mother is 92 and she looks great for a woman her age.



Anyone here have similar experiences?





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