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We can keep a journal written in that tenor; listen, and attend to
our inner thoughts, and arrange our verbal articulation to a leve l
that makes our words acceptable .
In this literary treatise, the notion of love can be either
altruist or utilitarian; life is love of silence achieved whe n
motion completes its course . The giving is spiritual but the
media of presentation has every aspect of actuality. As the
sphere of influences upon which the elderly ha ve acted are being
reduced, so too, his need for the skills of survival are lessened.
He might not have to eke out his living with the cunning of a
fox anymore, but that depends on the root syste m in his society.
When younger generations reject the value of the bark and hack
away at the trunk or fail to replenish the soil or allow light to
reach the leaves, deforestation results. Where the flow o f
minerals is conducted naturally from the core (xylem and
phloe m) to the outer spheres of cellular substance the tree exists
like forever. Trees improve their multiplicity of decades as
concerns their functional longevity by bearing forth offspring .
People see the disappearance of their spirit fro m amongst the
living as a tragic inevitability that they despise, fear, and
endeavor to avoid; this confusion is typical of occidental beings .
People are stupid for trying to apprehend the configuration o f
their being dead, it is a realm of experiential occurrence that
cannot be measured by perceptible dimensions, and their
confusion usurped by "eternity salesmen." For example, the
slogan, "Live and be merry for tomorrow we die," you'd be
surprised to know how mostly Occidental people subscribe to
that philosophy. When the old people accept the inevitability o f
death they can arrange to depart on the journey that entails only
restfulness and no productivity, a world where sounds are not
important and no sights can dist ract us from the area under
discussion. There is no train schedule and no more hurrying
about, I exist as the diminution and significance of my
interaction with those around me, no cleaving unto the status
quo where I no longer exist for them, only memories, so make
them good.
To posture oneself correctly with regard to the configuratio n
of beco ming dead, practical restraint and quietude are virtues o f
old age. Basic needs are treated with simple significance; we
may react modestly to the imposition of the physiologica l
alterations and restrictions on our bodies as natura l
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