the consequence of age/aging.

...here's the random rant for the week...


hmm..kinda sad to think of how in the end, regardless of how old we live to be, we will all die.

it was just so creepy to see my great-aunt and just see how plastic-y and dead she looked...like in her hands and face.

i suppose it's a good thing to know that she's gone to heaven now where she won't be in pain from the cancer and surgery.

'...to the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.'
-- Dumbledore.

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another sign that showed that we were all getting older was in yesterday's conversation i had w/ a couple of high school friends -- it was kinda like an epiphany of sorts.

it was in how all of a sudden it hit me that we were all close to our old ideal of the 'marriage-able' age... you know..the 24-26 dream. then BAM it hits me...WE're almost that age! =| and most of us are no where NEAR being ready to marry.

mind you..not everybody thinks this way...i know a couple of ppl who are now engaged and they're pretty much my age. eeks!

so what do we have to look forward to when we get 'older'. it's just more responsibilities and duties that are thrown upon us..particularly after we graduate from school. it's like we can't have that safety blanket/excuse of school to use to get out of stuff.

and then after that..it's all about working and making money..and marriage and kids later on.

BUT..as bleak as that sounds...the good part is in the fact that it's in how you live your life that counts...not how many years you live.

'One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.'
-- Virginia Woolf.