tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-183222708163641034.post3612528798628947770..comments2024-01-27T05:35:27.641-08:00Comments on Everead: Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?Alysa Stewarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03705870547401762370noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-183222708163641034.post-62949126257806944912015-09-24T10:44:37.800-07:002015-09-24T10:44:37.800-07:00Wow, "I've already had to accept and even...Wow, "I've already had to accept and eventually learn to love a bedridden life..." It's so awesome how your chronic illness is now giving you a leg up! Haha. But you're totally right. I bet your wisdom will benefit many around you as we all get older. When I become bedridden I'll email you and be like, "Ok Lindsay, it has happened. How do I find meaning and purpose?" :D Even if your wisdom isn't perfect I'm sure it will be *great*. Glad you liked the book! Alysa Stewarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03705870547401762370noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-183222708163641034.post-42547946247490490552015-09-24T09:34:51.704-07:002015-09-24T09:34:51.704-07:00Just finished reading this! Thanks for the recomme...Just finished reading this! Thanks for the recommendation; well worth the time! I can relate to the other comments -- my grandparents have all been surprised by their inevitable decline to one extent or another. Like the climbing on the stepladder, sometimes they don't accept their limitations until it's too late. I'd like to think I will have more wisdom about this as I age because in a sense, I aged prematurely when my health problems developed. I've already had the heart-rending experience of accepting that there are things I will never be able to do again. I've already had to accept and eventually learn to love a bedridden life and find meaning and purpose in it. I would like to think I have a head-start based on my own experience and watching all 4 of my grandparents' declines up close (lived with all of them at different times). But even so, I think it will still be hard to accept both my own impending death and my parents' no matter how matter-of-fact I can be about it now.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-183222708163641034.post-30804617189808745172015-08-28T10:52:00.783-07:002015-08-28T10:52:00.783-07:00Y'know, this is reminding me of a conversation...Y'know, this is reminding me of a conversation I had with my friend Hilary once. She was talking about how she knew from her youth that she was destined to be single well into adulthood, but that didn't make it any easier, apparently. I said, I could totally relate. At the time I was pregnant with my second child and I said, "I knew what I was getting into here... I knew that after you get pregnant you have to go through labor and delivery. But I'm still totally dreading it and having a hard time preparing for this inevitability." <br /><br />Death is inevitable. As I once heard someone say, "Nobody gets out of this life alive!" But preparing for it is really difficult. Coming to terms with its coming closer is frightening. Alysa Stewarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03705870547401762370noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-183222708163641034.post-28513510307049673782015-08-28T10:46:15.594-07:002015-08-28T10:46:15.594-07:00Haha! I hope Thailand works out wonderfully. :)Haha! I hope Thailand works out wonderfully. :)Alysa Stewarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03705870547401762370noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-183222708163641034.post-56584161325432686692015-08-22T12:02:40.913-07:002015-08-22T12:02:40.913-07:00This week I asked my 8th grade science students ho...This week I asked my 8th grade science students how to tell if something is alive. One student said, "poke it", which I thought was right on target because living things respond to their environment. Anyway, we also brought up the fact that all living things die (besides have cells, reproduce, move ...). So I think I have a pretty good grasp on the cycle of life. But somehow I am still a little surprised (or maybe just really inconvenienced?) by my own decline, as Ms. Yingling puts it. So I think I would enjoy reading this book. Maybe it will "poke" me a little =)Camihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14225091362207282442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-183222708163641034.post-83696255352530450202015-08-21T02:11:32.336-07:002015-08-21T02:11:32.336-07:00My parents are 81, and the thing that annoys me mo...My parents are 81, and the thing that annoys me most is that they are SURPRISED by their decline. I think I'll take a look at the book, but there's no way I want to talk to my parents about anything but the next imagined crisis I can't avoid (My jeans are wearing out. What will I DO?). Soon they will die, and I will move on. People die. We need to stop being surprised by this as a society. (As you can tell, I am merely annoyed by entire process and have a rest home in Thailand picked out for myself so my daughters don't have to deal with me. I'll tell them I'm having adventures.) Ms. Yinglinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17805324364289597178noreply@blogger.com