One of the consequences of aging...
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...is that you keep losing lifelong friends.
Sad but true.
I don't know if anyone is interested, but I thought I'd share the link to the slideshow. @big_al , you might be interested in the wanderings of a fellow engineer. He had a PhD in mechanical engineering, was a PE, and worked on nuclear reactors when he was at Sargent and Lundy.
I'm glad you shared that slide show. My life and career shared some similarities to Wasi, although I've ended up retired not too far from where I was born; very different from his story.
Big Al
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It is true that most of us here are entering a phase where life will take more away from us than it gives us. I find that I need to try a bit harder to maintain social connections and work a lot more on health, but I think it is worth it. I hope I can continue. Most of all I hope to die before I have to be placed in a home, unable to do anything that resembles life to me.
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I share Mik's desire to die before having to live a life without a certain quality of life.
Also, I don't want to suffer any protracted, painful treatments regimes for diseases when doing that could only lead to death.
I need to regroup by myself in a healthier environment and with more resources before I will be able to make significantly better health decisions and take significantly better actions accordingly.
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It is true that most of us here are entering a phase where life will take more away from us than it gives us. I find that I need to try a bit harder to maintain social connections and work a lot more on health, but I think it is worth it. I hope I can continue. Most of all I hope to die before I have to be placed in a home, unable to do anything that resembles life to me.
It is true that most of us here are entering a phase where life will take more away from us than it gives us. I find that I need to try a bit harder to maintain social connections and work a lot more on health, but I think it is worth it. I hope I can continue. Most of all I hope to die before I have to be placed in a home, unable to do anything that resembles life to me.
I already have only a handful of living family members left and I'm close to none of them.
Correction: I'm close to one of them, my late aunt's cousin who's in her '80's and lives in Seattle.
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Sounds like Wasi was a great guy!
My condolences.
though we have couple of older cousins and I have an older sister.
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