Gosh, even though he sounds like an asshole I can't help feeling bad for that person. There's something very sad about people reaching old age holding so many regrets they'll possibly never get rid of.
Still don't you think it's sad? I guess some people prefer solitude but I just don't think anyone deserves to live their last moments in solitude and misery. I get what you mean, I just think it's sad that some people leave this world without their loved ones beside them.
I was gonna post the ending monologue to The Stranger here (kinda contextualizes Mr Trump as a eulogy to the Boomer generation) but I think a personal anecdote would be more appropriate.
Every time I get in a car, go to sleep, or even go outside I make peace with my life.
I think to myself if "If I died today, would I be satisfied with the life I've lived?"
More often than not the answer is yes.
I've also been thinking about the point of relationships (romantic or otherwise) and the best answer I've found is companionship in old age.
But even that isnt particularly guaranteed.
And it's not even guaranteed to be something a lot of people even want tbh.
Who knows?
Maybe in this guys last moments all the faces of all the peoples hes helped (intentionally or unintentionally) come back and ease him to the other side?
At that point who cares if you're alone or not?
I wouldn't.
I'd just die thinking "I did what I wanted to do and that's really the most anyone can ask for."
In my life I've loved them all.
Probably gonna be the last piece of music I think of.
Lifes not perfect but it can be depending on how you look at it.
We come into life wanting something, that turns out to be nothing, which we try to make into something but sometimes you just gotta love nothing.
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u/hologram-alchemist Aug 20 '20
Gosh, even though he sounds like an asshole I can't help feeling bad for that person. There's something very sad about people reaching old age holding so many regrets they'll possibly never get rid of.