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May 18, 2021, 02:08 PM
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@Soupe du jour and all:
Yeah, it's hard to know how to measure success in life, we tend to focus only on longevity and yet the most successful human i know of, the American author David Foster Wallace, committed suicide at 46. But not after gifting the world many treasures.
I agree, it's not possible to tell how healthy a person is by how they look or their habits. Doctors don't even know for certainty. My dad got a clean bill of health three days before he dropped dead of a massive heart attack.
I'm not even sure i WANT to live a long life. My dad died at 55 and my mom at 70. The last ten years of her life she was an invalid. Her quality-of-life was very poor. My dad died in church! Not far to go to get to Heaven!
I was 18 and at-odds with him, a stupid power-struggle, same as my brother before me, so i didn't suffer too much when my dad died.
I didn't wish my dad dead but he was destroying me the way he destroyed my brother before me. My brother committed suicide at 21 when i was 14, so maybe it was for the best that my dad died young.
For me anyways!
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