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You know you're getting old when... Your birth certificate is filed in the National Archives. your 5th year birthday photo has through exposure to light and other natural elements over the many years faded to the extent that is a blank piece of paper and the paper has crumbled into a pile of...

I took SSRIs selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors for too, too many years, Bottom line(for me): I would rather face my depression head on and even if my way of dealing with it is at times clumsy, awkward and painfully inadequate, it is far safer yes i said safer than being blindsided...

no, but i wrote my name on the bottom of my[/i] old portable sony trinitron have you known the phone was going to ring 1 second before it actually does? More than once?

By the grace of my Higher Power and the loving, but firm arms of my fellows in AA, my duckies were finally lining up. I was now sober (dry) a little over seven years. I had worked the Steps (somewhat), gotten out of a bad marriage (mostly of my own making), and was living my life as a single...

LOL, thinking about contemporary life will do that ardour:D I wish i had the vision to see how things will shake out ultimately... then again, i don't really... might be even MORE depressing then i can envision:(

I could not agree more Ldoc. My feelings exactly, i couldn't add a thing that would sum things up more succinctly. Sometimes i feel the human race has no right to go on doing to itself and our Mother Earth what it does, and should just phase out of existence. What i'm also seeing is an inane and...

Mystic Pizza:P

You know you're getting old when your Grandchildren retire and you don't take a chance and buy green bananas

Welcome and you are right: the World has gone mad...:P'sept for us...:cool:

If you have dropped and lost something small on the floor like an earring stud, prescription pill, eyeglass screw and the like, find it by placing a lit flashlight on it's side, on the floor and slowly rotate the flashlight. Items will show up with a long shadow. Think late afternoon winter time...

X Files: I want to Believe, The. 2008 movie.

hi xclavian- There are many ways other than speech that would allow you to communicate. Some philosophers have even claimed language falls far short of expressing the human experience. You are still very young so i would ask if you have explored avenues such as playing music, visual...

If you are like me, or other Lone Wolves i've encountered, you are a Lone Wolf by nature, and would be one by choice if not by nature. I see it as a matter of choosing to not be a "follower" and having no need or desire to be a "leader". I could never feel completely aligned with the group and...

To my experience, having been both child and parent, one of the most common paradoxes of human relationships is the parent's insistence they are doing the right thing for their child and the child's perception that their parents are intrusive and clueless to their(child's) needs. I think because...

I saw a video of a chipmunk attacking a house cat...don't get me wrong, i hate violence, but the suprize on the cat's face was too much.