Sadness feeling

[Ellipse]

Just for the record.
Unusual feeling of sadness this night. Don't like this too much because it's usually linked with family or friends, bad news or problem. Will see.

 

[Roger]

Dear Ellipse, Sounds very much like my wife, who for years (many), she is known to have these feelings just before bad things happen...when family finds out , they prepare for the worse scenario. Wish you well as I know it is a rough feeling.

 

[Ellipse]

Thanks for your message Roger.

I got my father on the phone this evening and he said me that one of our neighbour passed away. She was 103 and his son came to my father's home to bring him personally the news. He said to my father that when he visited her, we were regularly a subject of conversation because we were her friend for so long. She was a very kind person for what I can judge. There was a link between the two families.

 

[Chu]

My condolences Ellipse.

If she lived to be 103 and is remembered as a kind person, then her time here seems to have been well spent. I hope she has a peaceful transition.

 

[truth seeker]

My condolences to you and your family, Ellipse.

 

[Roger]

Truly a good ripe old age, and I'm sure a very happy one...she is very blessed to be remembered so wonderfully by family and friends..my sincere condolences

 

[Nico]

Condolences Ellipse, I hope you'll get well, 103 years old seems to be a beautiful age for a kind person.

 

[Ant22]

My sincere condolences Ellipse. Your neighbour must have lived her life well if her departure has evoked such a sense of loss.

 

[zak]

Just for the record.
Unusual feeling of sadness this night. Don't like this too much because it's usually linked with family or friends, bad news or problem. Will see.

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Réponse #2 le: Hier à 10:25:36 pm »
Thanks for your message Roger.

I got my father on the phone this evening and he said me that one of our neighbour passed away. She was 103 and his son came to my father's home to bring him personally the news. He said to my father that when he visited her, we were regularly a subject of conversation because we were her friend for so long. She was a very kind person for what I can judge. There was a link between the two families.

It ain't easy to carry those kind of feeling
And also all my condolences.

In the Oliver Sacks way, elements and birthdays are intertwining, 103 in the periodic table is the element number
of Lawrence (Lr).

Knowing his death he wrote this in a quartet of essays calling "Gratitude":

When people die, they cannot be replaced. They leaves holes that cannot be filled,
for it is the fate-- the genetic and neural fate--of every human being to be a unique individual,
to find his own path, to live his own life, to die his own death.

I cannot pretend i am without fear. But my predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have
loved and been loved; i have been given much and i have given something in return;
i have read and traveled and thought and written.
I have had an intercourse with the world, the special intercourse of writers and readers.
Above all, i have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and
that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure.

 

[Ellipse]

Thanks for your messages for her. The ceremony was this morning.

This is almost the end of an epoch, the epoch of people who lived a part of their life under WWII, the Nazi occupation and bombings. This is why my parents and their neighbourhood had a kind of a special link. They were all survivors so to say.

 

[loreta]

My sincere condolences Ellipse. How lucky you were, and your family, to know this person.

Thanks zak for the kind words of Oliver Sacks.

 

[Zar]

My condolences Ellipse.

If she lived to be 103 and is remembered as a kind person, then her time here seems to have been well spent. I hope she has a peaceful transition.

I agree, my condolences Ellipse.