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The Future, Staring Right At Me

A pretty young girl walked right up to me stuck in her finger in my belly and decreed 'You're old and useless, you should die' but before I could cry, the pretty girl let fly: 'The future belongs to us, the young and the strong' ~ and it's not remotely possible that she's wrong

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Linda Alice Fowler

Date: 8/14/2023 3:13:00 PM

Thankfully I am surrounded by caring and loving young people gw. laf :)

Michael Tor

Date: 8/12/2023 11:10:00 PM

I hope she gets the same treatment when she is old Gershon lol...

Judy Ball

Date: 8/12/2023 2:53:00 PM

Hmmmm Then again some tribes value their old people for their knowledge and wisdom. I wonder if she realizes she will not be young and pretty for long. We are all subject to the circle of life. Good one Gershon. God Bless, JB

Gershon Wolf
Date: 8/12/2023 8:13:00 PM

You never know... Some of these stars who are 80+ don't look a day over 55...

Joe Maverick

Date: 8/12/2023 10:21:00 AM

Well shes welcome to any future we are likely To get I reckon specially if she partakes fully We might live her out still.' Aint things.? well.. Rather sad.!

Gershon Wolf
Date: 8/12/2023 8:13:00 PM

Right. Ain't things. :)

John Lawless

Date: 8/12/2023 5:09:00 AM

maybe she was just searching for more lint to complete an quilt

Gershon Wolf
Date: 8/12/2023 8:14:00 PM

Right. To complete a quilt. ??????????

Bj Legros Kelley

Date: 8/11/2023 8:38:00 PM

Life is a vapor, and she has no idea how time flies, she will be older one day too (hopefully), and probably (again hopefully) ashamed. So sad though. The only ones that may truly care about her are the elders, and it seems she wouldn't mind if we were all hastened to the grave.

Gershon Wolf
Date: 8/12/2023 8:16:00 PM

I'm off on a grave mission, B.J. ~ Seriously

Shirley Hawkins

Date: 8/11/2023 8:33:00 PM

I wonder if she will have the same opinion when she is old; she has much to learn.

Gershon Wolf
Date: 8/12/2023 8:25:00 PM

She certainly does have what to learn... Then again, so do we all...

Akkina Downing

Date: 8/11/2023 8:30:00 PM

Once upon a time, a little girl asked me why I was so skinny?! The wind might blow me away. I replied, wouldn’t that be nice?! I would love to fly. And she giggled :) sometimes kids say things out of curiosity unbeknownst of how one might feel.

Gershon Wolf
Date: 8/12/2023 8:18:00 PM

Kids do 'say the darndest things.' ~ Art Linkletter

Kim Rodrigues

Date: 8/11/2023 5:59:00 PM

Perhaps but there is a use for us. When that young girl falls into tears, when her life feels like its falling apart and her elder is there to catch her, encourage…tell her, dear blow your nose here…

Gershon Wolf
Date: 8/12/2023 8:19:00 PM

Ah, those practical, pampering mothering instincts pay off in both the short and the long run!