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and only from an optimistic viewpoint will this ever bea r
mentioning. What I really want is for the next generation to
carry the burden farther. Many calculations that echo within my
brain concern drastic threats to the survival of the Jewish Race,
and catastrophic proportions as concerns the world -at-large and
the Negev Desert in particular.
Now let me explain to you how it is that men and women wee p
bitter tears about the prospect of their ultimate departure fro m
life. For one thing, it's beneficial for one to be cognizant of his
mortality. To explain literally, I mean, when an old man seeks
to give over advice that he's cultivated no less than a half
century - so the children who didn't listen are crying because
they took no heed, or he was forced to scream in order to ge t
their attention. Obviously, someone screaming about something
at anyone is not going to absorb the thought s I scream at his or
her face. So me old people are sensitive to the extent of wanting
to do a mitzvah, like attending a birthday party of a grandchild
despite the hardships of road travel. The aged person is neithe r
willing nor able to let be known how clo se he or she may be to
a mental breakdown. As we know, pain that attracts pity and
guilt trips went out of fashion years ago .
Does long-suffering find no escape fro m circumstances in
which one could degrade himself to plead, cajole, and berate the
value of life because he's so desperately lonely? Wallowing in
the social sty of modernity, we co mpel the awareness sensitivity
conscious to accept what can't be tolerated . You've got to make
the best of it. The question comes down to this , what of all I've
been, and done and if not during my living hours then after life,
yes? As such, I produce humankind's characteristics of giving
of my strength and talents to projects that are me morable,
ceramics, oil paintings, my garden, my writings, maybe the rare
words I share with people in conversations . For instance, my
battle to forge a geriatric culture, English lessons manuals. M y
theory of conflict resolution.
The bitterness of the tears known from beyond the grave is
in the tears his children will have poured out fo r not havin g
appreciated his wisdom, since the world of verbal articulatio n
has been reduced to quip phrases ! Alas, the joke is on the m
because his me mory lingers in the creative productivity in whic h
he invested countless hours; memorandum that outlast time. The
good feelings associated to the paintings, writing, garden,
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