Letting Go.....

I have been think'en a lot lately about feebleness, or dementia, or the loss of will to live....

When exactly is that defining moment that takes us from a young person to an old person.....

I write this because of Patty...a once charming, charismatic human being who at one time was beloved by all and admired for her intellect...has become today... A shadow of who she once was, as she sits alone watching endless cable news, while living in social exile....

Did she make this choice to begin the walk towards the other side?...

The inevitable decline..more towards death than life?

Do we all at some single defining moment during our own time make this a conscious decision...which is to just let go?

And I just wonder....will that be me some day?

I shudder to think that it could be me....God I hope not....