Re: [AMC-List] stuff gets old

[Mark Price <markprice242@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If you feel out of place, Imagine the feelings that run thru ones head while being a virtual invalid for 4 month. One finds oneself questioning the real purpose of things. Life goes on around you. You add to the work load instead of carrying it. You see the real people that care, it is very easy to tell. The ones that care send you 4 get well cards and visit every other week even thoguh it takes them over an hour to get there. The people that raised you and had you get by with one visit in four months and 3 phone calls. The second set of people live closer!
  Yeah, it's easy to get lost wondering where it all leads. Like stuff we all "get old".
Remember that the alternative to getting old is worse! The only real alterantive is after all to not go on at all!
Mark Price
markprice242ATadelphia.net
Morgantown, WV


---- Keleigh Hardie <keleigh3000@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
> I believe that that is a recent phenomenon, historically speaking. Up until 
> the last century, things stayed pretty much the same for the duration of a 
> human lifetime (which was shorter then, to boot). Now, by the time you're 
> grown up, all the technology you learned is obsolete. It seems it's now 
> beginning to affect values and social structures as well. In a discussion 
> about this with my wife recently I said, "if feel like the world I was 
> raised to live in was all but over by the time I was old enough to take my 
> place in it. Young folks today will no doubt feel that way when they reach 
> middle age, I'd bet...
> 
> Keleigh
> 
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> Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 7:12 AM
> Subject: AMC-List Digest, Vol 11, Issue 27
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> Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 14:12:53 +0000
> From: jackbarncord@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [AMC-List] stuff gets old.
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> 
> Tom, upon occasion I will forward one of your posts to my brother, Frank 
> called Lad.  This morning I did so with your "stuff gets old" post.  Here is 
> a bit of his response to your question, "So why is it we drive these old 
> things?!"
> 
> Snip ----
> 
> I can come up with many answers to Tom's rhetorical question, "So why is it 
> we
> drive these old things?!"  Among the many, the one I like the most:  We were
> born in the wrong era.  While things of today hold a curiosity and certain
> amount of "entertainment" value, the things of yesterday truly fascinate and
> captivate our thoughts.  Have you ever said, "I was born a generation too 
> late"?
> I know I have.  As much as things of aviation grip my being, the fast-moving
> jets with their fly-by-wire technology and ability to accurately acquire and
> destroy targets miles away simply don't thrill me.  Give me the cockpit of a
> Corsair or a Mustang or a you-name-it round engine or V-12 powered propeller
> plane and I'm in my element.  I've never flown one, nor have I ever sat in 
> one;
> but, I know it is my element.  There has always been a feeling deep inside 
> my
> gut for old airplanes that spewed to the surface the first time my hands 
> were placed on a control yoke.  It was unmistakable and familiar and 
> somewhat eerie all at once.  As Yogi Berra would say, "déjà vu all over 
> again."  I knew how to fly and had only touched the yoke.
> 
> It is that inexplicable love and familiarity with things of yesterday that 
> pulls
> us back to the earlier time.  Not because they're simpler, because in many 
> ways
> they aren't; but, because they are comfortable in our hands.
> 
> Lad
> 
> End Snip ----
> 
> My brother was an accomplished pilot holding a commercial rotary wing and 
> single engine fixed wing license until an unexplained seizure grounded him 
> for life.  He is due to retire from the DOD, USTRANSCOM, in less than a 
> year.
> 
> 
> AMC content:  Doh!  I'm lookin' at an SX4.....  AMC number seven is in the 
> wings.
> 
> Jack
> 
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