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You have reached a 100?

Daily writing prompt
Write a letter to your 100-year-old self.

Oh how I’d like to write a meaningful soliloquoy on life’s challenges and the benefits of growing old and appreciating things other than fame, instant gratification and regret. I can’t as I really haven’t lived that sort of life.

So I imagine myself a 100 years old and I’m afraid it wouldn’t be a pretty sight.

I most likely would have given up the ghost about ten years before and would just be a husk of my former self. The best would have gone and I would be at Peace and frankly nothing I could say to myself would make a difference, other than ,talking to myself would be allowed if not expected by my three times a day home carers.

As for writing well the arthritis would have stopped me using a keyboard a long time ago and my pens ran out of ink some years back.

I would be playing a waiting game, and smiling a a lot at the impracticability of silly prompts.

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Namaste and Thank You for Reading.🙏

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Dear Dusty

Write a letter to your 100-year-old self.

Dear Dusty,

I wanted to let you know that though you didn’t make it to a hundred years old,you didn’t fail in life.

It’s a misnomer to think that the body can last a hundred years.Seventy to eighty is good going and nothing to be ashamed of,and truthfully is more in line with nature.

Who wants to be a giant tortoise trundling around under the weight of a heavy shell eating grass and dandelions in a field when it’s pouring with rain .

Or a deep ocean  sea creature dwelling in  hidden caves and scavenging  on the seabed for the world’s detritus.

Life for us bipeds is different and you played your part or the game whichever way you like to view it.Which now you can.Magnamously.

You made it,now exist in Peace.

Love Me.

Namaste,my good friend,you ,thank you for reading.

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