from where i now sit

History records chief joseph as saying that "from where the sun now stands,i will fight no more forever."hhmmm now i figure the chief was a wise man,and as you can see by the title of this little writeup that i sort of paraphrased him,the reason that i did not just out and out plagerize his words is that he might have had lawful grounds to place a suite for intellectual thievery on me,but i figure me and the chief have a lot in common,he was old and tired,and so am i...well i am old anyway,and though i dont have a horse,in fact,if the truth is to be known,i dont own a saddle either,also i wouldent know which side to approach a horse to place said saddle on it's back if i even owned a horse..anyway,from where i now sit,it seems like the whole world has gone absolutely insane,people are running around complaining about the price of this and the price of that,the schools are blaming the parents on the way the children act in and out of school,the parents are blaming the schools for the same thing and mean while the kids are blaming every one that is at least five years older than they are,the government is hollering about more taxes,the people are hollering about being taxed too much,where will it all end?probably right here,right where i now sit,every body will eventually arrive at a point in life where they are content to sit and judge the whole world and figure that they are right and every body else is wrong,of course,some people reach that stage a lot earlier than others,like my eight year old grand son for instance.Oh yes and my son as well.
Now i know that i am uh...the word cant hardly seep through my brain to my fingers, but i know that i am ....old...ok,the truth is out,i am old,but unlike most older people,i dont think that i am right all the time,i am right just half the time and the other half cant be convinced that it is wrong at all..
From where i now sit,the whole world has gone to hell in a hand basket,well thats what my old granddad used to say,not that i always agreed with my old granddad either,but the closer i get to his age,the more i tend to agree with a lot of things he said,maybe i will end up finally agreeing to every thing he said,who knows?My point is...what is my point anyway? oh yeah..the age question,when exactly dose a person get old?well i think a person is old when a person begins to THINK they are old,when they begin to think in terms like "oh no,my rheumatism is acting up!" or "well i would get out and go sky diving,but i think i am gonna just take a nap"or maybe it is when you no longer have small children around to keep you active,like in the Boy Scouts,or PTA or getting the kids to sunday school on time,maybe it is when the boss tells you to go home and "sit on your laurels"if you want...or need my opinnion i think you get old when you let your mind atrophy,like the old doctor (whoever he was) said "what you dont use,you loose" well thats just a fact of nature,take a bird,any bird,if it dont use the wings it was given to fly with,after a little time,it will be difficult to fly to the next tree,if it decides that it is too much effort to even try,then the wings will finally disappear and then what do you have? a big old dodo bird,thats what you got,and the last time i checked the dodo bird was extinct.
Since the advent of the computer age,it has become easier and easier to just sit at a desk and google every thing you want to know,but i think there are such things as books,books can be used for a variety of things besides proping a door open to let the cat or dog in or out,people once even read books,now a days i think they place them on bookshelves or coffee tables as a sort of status symbol,maybe even relegate them to the bathroom along side last months national geographic magazines,just below the charmine toilet paper and the pepto bismol and preparation H...not that i am familiar with any of these products,but i happen to go into a lot of different bathrooms seems as if my kidney's act better now than they used to act.Also i am not one of those people who peek into others medicine cabinets either,uhuh not me..thats somthing an old geezer might do,and i am only 68..heh heh heh and i dont think i am old enough to be termed an old geezer...yet.Anyway thats the way things stand from where i now sit...

Story ID:	3491
Written by:	Bobby O'neill Mitchum (bio, contact, other stories)
Story type:	Musings, Essays and Such
Location:	Phenix City Alabama U.S.A.
Year:	2008
Person:	self