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Post by unclegarf on Jan 25, 2019 15:01:47 GMT -8
Hik! Don't like coconut. I'll just drink whiskey from the bottle. Much easier.
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Post by Ted on Jan 29, 2019 22:06:10 GMT -8
Hik! Don't like coconut. I'll just drink whiskey from the bottle. Much easier. If you can taste the coconut you've added too much. Blend should end up tasting like a slightly pineapplish concoction.
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Ria Stone
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Post by Ria Stone on Feb 3, 2019 11:28:47 GMT -8
Came up in conversation about living longer and and the notion of sustainable relationships for a lifetime. Walking my old Staffy Sally around the cemetery down the road, I'm often reading the older headstones and my creative head making up the stories behind them. So many dying at what we would think of as young ages, seventy being right at the high end. I'm hurtling towards my 66th year so it make me think. Like many, I'd have been long dead a couple of times if not for modern medicine. I'd certainly have suffered constant pain for many years without the health care for hip replacements, etc. When reaching mid fifties was not that long ago considered not too bad, staying married for twenty to thirty years was more doable. In a time when reaching our nineties is normal, are we really expected to stay with one partner for sixty plus years? I had about thirty years with my partner, 24 actually married. She was divorced once before we met. Has the concept of being married for life realistic? Doesn't this open up so many story possibilities? Your turn. And lets have some of you who read these things but never contribute having your say. I've known people who were happily married for 50 years. So no, it's not unrealistic. It happens. All the time and everywhere around the world. The idea you're (I think) referring to, is that of getting bored with your partner/spouse. Let's examine this from another angle. Say you've had a best friend for years. Are you going to put an expiry date on that friendship? "Well, sorry old bud - I tossed the milk out this morning, and tonight - you've gotta go. Hard to believe twenty-five years passed like a snap, ain't it?!?" Love doesn't have an expiration date. You have to find new ways to enjoy one another as time passes. Just like with good friends. My bet is you don't have the same conversations with a best bud today that you had twenty-five or thirty years ago. Times change, people change -- but we adapt. The idea of just getting bored with a spouse and ditching them like expired milk is distasteful. A relationship -- of any kind -- requires maintenance. It isn't easy, and it doesn't just happen by itself. It calls for work. I think that people saying they just don't love their spouse any more is their way of admitting they're lazy. If you are that lazy in your relationships, and you fall in and out of love that easily, I feel you should do everyone a favor and abstain from making what is supposed to be a lifetime commitment. If you know in your heart of hearts you can't deliver, then don't build someone else's hopes and dreams up, only to destroy them after a few years have passed. And to do that time and time again? We've all known people like that. Married for third, or fourth, or fifth time. They need to just date and have flings and stay out of the more serious game of marriage. It isn't for everyone. As my Uncle is fond of saying: "Having fun ain't for wimps." No, it certainly is not. On the other hand, I agree, this could be the basis of some interesting futuristic stories. Very thoughtful reply, Chris.
Just a quick note, we are all individuals, while we can find advice from many sources, some of that advice will apply, some will not. Be careful not to think you are doing something wrong if your life differs from the "norm."
IMHO, the longer the relationship, the harder it is to separate. Also, the reasons people marry vary from generation to generation, from culture to culture.
From the perspective of cumulative years, we do look at the world and our lives differently.
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Post by jaydax on Feb 5, 2019 16:15:15 GMT -8
A topic dear to my heart since I write a book series about it. The first free starter being 'Immortality Gene'. I spent a lot of time researching this over ten years ago. Apart from the US, where life expectancy is decreasing, science is beginning to make dramatic changes to life expectancy. It's advancing at an ever increasing rate and soon will be advancing faster than time does. If we remove age related illnesses then accidental death will be the primary cause of death. According to insurance tables your life expectancy would become 1729 years. (Did you know my Twitter name is @jchapman1729?) The science is called senolytics and the experts in the field believe that the first person to live to 1,000 is alive now. So how will it work? We need two things: 1. We have to kill cells with damaged DNA. The body is supposed to do this but somewhere in our evolutionary past a wrong turn was taken that allowed age related death. That wrong turn had a species survival value because new more advanced animals survived and less advanced forms died out. The process of old cell death is called apoptosis. Old cells are meant to die. They don't and accumulate causing age related conditions such as arthritis, Alzheimer's, heart disease etc. 2. Old cells which die are meant to be replaced with fully functioning cells from stem cells. The implications of greatly extended lifespan? I had a go at thinking about that at avestedinterest.info/immortality.htm
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Post by Ted on Feb 5, 2019 19:53:43 GMT -8
I'm not sure I want to go curling at 1729 years old. I can't do it at 70.
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Post by jaydax on Feb 6, 2019 8:30:44 GMT -8
Ah but I signed the Peter Pan pledge years ago Ted and I think I could go curling now at 70 also - It would be my first time. As to doing it at 1729 - no problem because if the science of senolytics comes to pass you would start aging backwards until you appear to be about 25. I suspect some white haired ladies would take pride in having long hair, white at the end with dark roots instead of the other way round.
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Post by unclegarf on Feb 6, 2019 12:05:35 GMT -8
John. Just got dark secrets which I promise to read. Could take awhile as with stuff going on in my life and needing to get my health back on track to concentrate on it to do it justice, and that I write a book faster than I can read one, not sure when I'll be able to immerse myself into it. Looking forward to languishing in your literary endeavors very soon.
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