Here's the problem with aging. None of us have ever been as old as we are this very minute. We don't know what might be serious or just a normal aging thing. Many have no one to talk to about it. I live alone and even though I live close to and have access to them, my children, are not easy to talk too. There is two reasons for that, one is that we are their parent. Our main job in life was protecting them from as much as we could. In my case, I look at it like this "I am the father, I am supposed to be the one that takes care of them." It has been that way since they took their first unassisted breath. It is against my very core to let go of that responsibility. Second, when I do try to share, something they have asked me directly to do, the expression on their faces is one that resonates with wanting to be anyplace else besides listening to my concerns.
So what that means is we tend to share to much on line because, first... We don't feel the need to protect people we don't know and second... we don't have to see your facial expressions. Therefore, we might share more in the impersonal world of the internet. The solution? Don't read it, "you hop on the bus, Gus, , You don't need to discuss much, Just drop off the key, Lee, And get yourself free, Slip out the back, Jack, Make a new plan, Stan, You don't need to be coy, Roy', just get yourself free"
Many thanks to Paul Simon for helping me to solve this pressing problem.
Disclaimer: Troubled waters not a euphemism for plumbing issues.
