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| DATE | 2015-05-03 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Journal Club meeting
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On 05/03/2015 05:02 PM, Rick Moen wrote:
> Quoting Ruben Safir (mrbrklyn-at-panix.com):
>
>> I feel like I'm done at this point. What is there left for me to live.
>> I've done about all I can do .. and it is all just a fucking struggle.
> Of course, attitudes to this problem are various.
>
> My mother had a mostly sucky last ten or so years of her life, but did
> what she could with it, and her slogan during that period was: 'Do as
> well as you can for as long as you can.'
>
> The classic American attitude (more West than NYC) is: If your life
> sucks, start over and remake yourself. I think it's a kind of
> craziness, but I'll be damned if I haven't seen people make it work.
>
> Me, I'd not ever do that in any sense of the concept, but I do keep
> finding things to enjoy in life. Including the company of friends.
>
>
Well, I went back to school, but I doubt it will ever amount to a new
career in IT. It's not like I haven't had a full life. I had 6 kids,
two careers, raised hell in politics, organized programs, lived a full
Jewish life, and now I've buried everyone that really mattered. I've
lived through a divorce that caused pain that one can't imagine. I've
seen the great art, was there when the Twin Towers fell, lived through
the worst crime spree of modern history. We lived through the city's
fiscal crisis, race riot, and still squeezed worthwhile activities out
of the dark and bleak times we lived in. But I'll still end up homeless
in a month, looking for work. And I really am getting old, in a hard way.
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