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Shocked by aging process
My fingernails and toenails stopped growing and just keep breaking off. My hair is falling out. My memory is not as sharp and sometimes I feel a little woozy. I hate this. I want my body and my senses back.
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@grandmira I think about "making do" often when I see the glut of gadgets on the market!
We just remodeled several rooms in our home, repurposing shelving and furniture from one room to another instead of going shopping. We recycle no-longer-used furniture, canning jars, fabrics, tools, etc to others for free on the local "Buy Nothing" group. Then they can "make do" instead of taking on debt.
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1 Reaction@grandmira Your post takes me back to Walter's monologue in "Twilight of the Golds", speaking of his parents... "They were children of the depression. They put food on our table and clothes on our backs."
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My grandma too ❤️ pogrom survivor. Coming To America.
Sometimes, @grandmira, when I'm allowing myself a few moments of self-centeredness ( 🙂 ), I reflect on how much of my everyday is a necklace of "making dos" as a fellow with a chronic disease. I caught myself only the other day while having lunch with a friend who appears to me all-around healthy (certainly, he's more able-bodied than I am) whose every remark was complain, complain, complain. Without saying it aloud, the voice iny head of my temporarily self-centered self was whispering, "Dear friend, do you ever try just 'making do'? Is there anything in your life, dear friend, that even requires you to have to 'make do'?" // Three cheers for your grandmother, @grandmira: Hip, hip, hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah! // Have a wonderful day, @grandmira. –Ray (ray666)
I grew up with the “make do” attitude as we never were flush with the bucks. The kids make fun of me today as I’m always saying I can use that don’t through it out. It makes a person innovative, I can fix pretty well anything around the house, never had to call a repair man except for the fridge. Self reliance is a goal we should strive for, however a helping hand is never refused.
I wonder, @grandmira, if a lifetime of "making do" only makes it tougher to accept those changes that beset almost all of us, rendering us unable to "make do" where it used to be easy to "make do." Whatever the answer is, I, like you, still prefer a life of "making do." Cheers! –Ray (@ray666)
@ray666 I will probably go to my grave making do, as it has been my way since I was young man. I surely will not apologize for it as it did me “good” all these years.