Signs your getting old?
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- DaveO21
My dad's best friend died yesterday. He was 78 and i've known him almost as long as I've known my dad.
He used to buy all his friend's kids a Terry's Chocolate Orange every year for Christmas and put a £20 note inside, and as we all got older, got married and had kids, all our wives / husbands and kids also got one. it was a weird cosy family tradition that I know I'll miss, as will everyone else.
A reminder really that death is coming for everyone, one of the only truly inevitable things that will happen to us.
Everyone thinks about 'legacy' as this profound, grand sweeping idea of changing peoples lives or leaving a body of work behind that is significant, but i know that there are three generations of people who will really miss his tradition. Just a gesture to say that he thought about us all every year and reached out to let us know he loved us in a small but special way. That's a legacy to me.
CheersLawrence
- Cheers :'(OBBTKN
- I'm sorry mate :(maquito
- My granny is in renal failure at the moment. She's 92 and had a fair whack at life. She's still compos mentis. But time is shit. Sorry for your losscruddlebub
- Lawrence sounded like a good dude - sorrystoplying