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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Rambi who wrote (25795)	11/7/1998 1:31:00 PM
From: Grainne	Respond to of 108807

Hi, Penni!! Gee, I am glad to know that you are okay after your minor surgery. What kind of funeral did you plan in the meantime? I bet it was a really sorrowfully beautiful vision of some sort. I want Bono from U2 to sing a very sad Irish love song at mine, and then I want to be buried wrapped in a simple linen shroud in a rattan casket under some pine tree seedlings near the edge of a cliff with waves crashing in the distance. You were so right when you said that what is important at the age we both are is not wasting time. I wonder if I feel so strongly about that because of the years invested in child rearing. This was a time where I did not think of myself first. Now, suddenly, I am, and it feels a little strange, although certainly it seemed normal when I was in my twenties. I went to a little informational seminar on breast cancer recently, given by a woman doctor, and she began by describing a typical life of a working woman--two teenagers, a busy job, no time for herself, the only exercise she got was running around the supermarket on Saturday. The doctor's point was that this woman needed to take the time to have yearly mammograms, and monthly self breast exams, and eat right and get plenty of real, beneficial exercise, because no one would care as much as she did about her own health. But modern life is just kind of nuts for most women, whether they work outside the home or not. We were trained for thousands of years to think of our families first, and now that so many of us are working fulltime on top of that, it is a recipe for failure and self denial. I know that life ends and accept that; I just don't want to get to that end with a lot of regrets and longings for everything I missed. I'm glad you watched the movie and ate the basket of candy!! The next time you're at the video store, you might check out "Hope Floats." It is not a great movie--it is slow and long, for one thing. But it says some really important things about seizing the chances you have, and making the very most of them, and really loving the people around you and dealing with the hand you were dealt graciously. It is very romantic, and Sandra Bullock and Harry Connick, Jr. are both very appealing.