Getting old ....Writing Your Eulogy
Time To Write My Eulogy
No I will not be dying any time soon.
But I came up with this great idea of writing my own eulogy.
Being a writer of sorts, I have written lots of obituaries in my life. I would mention that just as I am going through the phenomena of growing old, which I call "reverse puberty", so too are many of my beloved relatives and friends.
So I thought, WRITE YOUR OWN EULOGY!!!
First, some thoughts....
.......when I write an obit for a cherished person in my life, I concentrate on the best of their lives. I ladle on all the good adjectives, happy memories, blessedness and all the good things the deceased brought into our lives.
Obviously those of us writing our own eulogy must show modesty lest our funereal attendees note that one thing we didn't appear to have was humility.
Also I have every intention of writing my own auto-biography. And no, I don't particularly care if not another person in the world ever reads it. What I would like is if someday some future descendant of mine should get curious about the background of the family they could use my auto-biography as a historical reference.
Once you write your own eulogy you should find someone dependable who will read it thoroughly and politely.
Below....my eulogy :
Patricia Fish loved to write. No, she was not a write as an economic occupation. Pat often told me she did not feel worthy of being labeled a "writer" along the lines of Pearl Buck, Leon Uris...even Stephen King. But she often won or received recompense for the few writing items she would submit to such as union newsletters and company publications.
Pat would be the first to tell you that she did not often come off as a kind and friendly person. She had a temper and hated feeling as if people were ignoring her or giving her bad service. Pat often made a fool of herself, quite publicly. She'd argue that she often did the wrong thing for the right reason. Almost every time she regretted it immediately.
Pat continue to write for most of her life. Her true writing talent laid with social media....Blogging.
Pat began life before an Internet ever existed. Over the years she enjoyed Blogging, a social media activity that pleased her with a combination of pictures, text and post effects. Oh she wrote a few books as well. Pat loved to write short stories.
Pat was a devout Catholic and she told me she hopes to go to heaven. She realizes there were some sins that might require a stint in purgatory.
More than anything, Pat asks that you read her autobiography titled "Doing All the Wrong Things For the Right Reasons."
She enjoyed singing in the choir, got a college degree after 13 years of night college, and was active in church activities.
Pat told me that it anything would most describe her....it would be "average". Indeed, ordinary, mediocre if you like. But one trait Pat wanted the world to know she had, and she is proud of it, is an ingrained sense of fairness.
As do most Americans Pat would argue, not to take credit for being something most people are when born or learn it as they grow in a free society, such as America.
Fair people did not want to impeach President Trump, Pat would argue. Nature itself does not allow unfairness in use of the planet's resources. The larger animals of the planet do not eat other animals. Whales and elephants eat grass or other vegetation. To have the huge animals consume a species would eventually result in the elimination of that species. This is not nature's plan. Evolution is nature's design. The whales that ate the algae survived and reproduced. The whales that ate the lambs died off as they ate all the lambs and had no more food.
Well that's the example that Pat gave me and we all know whales don't eat lambs.
But Pat would never cheat during a card game, she'd never steal from someone. Even as she divvied food up for the dogs she would make sure each of them got an equal share.
We will miss her and hope she is Blogging in heaven. May she rest in peace.
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She finds a presidential contender molesting a child. What can she do?
No I will not be dying any time soon.
But I came up with this great idea of writing my own eulogy.
Being a writer of sorts, I have written lots of obituaries in my life. I would mention that just as I am going through the phenomena of growing old, which I call "reverse puberty", so too are many of my beloved relatives and friends.
So I thought, WRITE YOUR OWN EULOGY!!!
First, some thoughts....
.......when I write an obit for a cherished person in my life, I concentrate on the best of their lives. I ladle on all the good adjectives, happy memories, blessedness and all the good things the deceased brought into our lives.
Obviously those of us writing our own eulogy must show modesty lest our funereal attendees note that one thing we didn't appear to have was humility.
Also I have every intention of writing my own auto-biography. And no, I don't particularly care if not another person in the world ever reads it. What I would like is if someday some future descendant of mine should get curious about the background of the family they could use my auto-biography as a historical reference.
Once you write your own eulogy you should find someone dependable who will read it thoroughly and politely.
Below....my eulogy :
Patricia Fish loved to write. No, she was not a write as an economic occupation. Pat often told me she did not feel worthy of being labeled a "writer" along the lines of Pearl Buck, Leon Uris...even Stephen King. But she often won or received recompense for the few writing items she would submit to such as union newsletters and company publications.
Pat would be the first to tell you that she did not often come off as a kind and friendly person. She had a temper and hated feeling as if people were ignoring her or giving her bad service. Pat often made a fool of herself, quite publicly. She'd argue that she often did the wrong thing for the right reason. Almost every time she regretted it immediately.
Pat continue to write for most of her life. Her true writing talent laid with social media....Blogging.
Pat began life before an Internet ever existed. Over the years she enjoyed Blogging, a social media activity that pleased her with a combination of pictures, text and post effects. Oh she wrote a few books as well. Pat loved to write short stories.
Pat was a devout Catholic and she told me she hopes to go to heaven. She realizes there were some sins that might require a stint in purgatory.
More than anything, Pat asks that you read her autobiography titled "Doing All the Wrong Things For the Right Reasons."
She enjoyed singing in the choir, got a college degree after 13 years of night college, and was active in church activities.
Pat told me that it anything would most describe her....it would be "average". Indeed, ordinary, mediocre if you like. But one trait Pat wanted the world to know she had, and she is proud of it, is an ingrained sense of fairness.
As do most Americans Pat would argue, not to take credit for being something most people are when born or learn it as they grow in a free society, such as America.
Fair people did not want to impeach President Trump, Pat would argue. Nature itself does not allow unfairness in use of the planet's resources. The larger animals of the planet do not eat other animals. Whales and elephants eat grass or other vegetation. To have the huge animals consume a species would eventually result in the elimination of that species. This is not nature's plan. Evolution is nature's design. The whales that ate the algae survived and reproduced. The whales that ate the lambs died off as they ate all the lambs and had no more food.
Well that's the example that Pat gave me and we all know whales don't eat lambs.
But Pat would never cheat during a card game, she'd never steal from someone. Even as she divvied food up for the dogs she would make sure each of them got an equal share.
We will miss her and hope she is Blogging in heaven. May she rest in peace.
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She finds a presidential contender molesting a child. What can she do?
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