I wish all of us lots of luck with all the challenges we’re facing! :)
I’m starting a thread for those of us who want to jot down words of wisdom from our elderly LOs.
Some place to crystalize, safeguard their words :).
Some place to help uplift us!
I’ll start with some words from my LOs:
—continue your course
—when you were younger, you had an ideal; continue with that
—be true to yourself
—life is so beautiful, I want more of it, live till 122
—if you have found your wisdom, continue!
—don’t accept conventionalism
i'm having such an awful day (worry), that your/your MIL's words make me smile a lot!! :)
i'm so glad she said that and felt that.
bundle of joy
My Dad used to say:
#1. "Most folks are just decent folks trying to live a decent life and take care of their families."
#2. "I am going to buy all the insurance I can, and the very BEST insurance, and I am going to pay a whole lot for it and hope that some other guy uses it for me. I am going to pay a huge amount of taxes happily and I am going to hope some other guy needs it and not me". Meaning that he was happy to pay to protect himself and his family and basically any OTHER family and just hoped that nothing catastrophic hit and he needed the help.
He was likely the kindest, best person I will ever know. Quiet. Listened to everyone else. Knew so much more than I could imagine until he opened his mouth.
Close to the end of his life, when he was tired and just wanted to tell me he had a good ride, but was so tired and ready, he told me the worst thing he ever did in his life. And how he had never got over it. And just let me say, if that's the worst any of us have to tell on our death beds, we will be so lucky.
Never religious really, he saw himself as the leaf that came to bud, to thrive, and would die to nourish other trees.
I am 80 and can still feel him with me.
wonderful!! :) :)
“Once an adult, twice a child.”
" You are so stupid you couldn't pour piss out of a boot if the boot was turned over and had no piss in it"
" I'm fixing to slap the piss right out of your mouth" I still don't get that one.
" You are just full of piss and vinegar today"
"Piss or use the pot"
"You're feeling your piss today"
When asked how he became such an honorable and fine man after an upbringing like that, he said:
"If I didn't know how to handle something, I'd think, 'What would my parents do,' and then I'd do the opposite."
That's how you get past mistreatment by parents who failed you.
"Boy is HE full of the dickens."
Or, said directly to the child:
"You sure are full of the dickens."
My grandma always said it with a smile and usually with affection. It lived on when I caught myself saying it to my own son.
Thank you…much appreciated 🙏🏼😍…
my soon to be 95 yo mother with dementia used to be a good loving mother …nevertheless, the hurtful words that come out of her mouth still hurt 😢
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