I am not afraid of death, which after all can't be far away. What does frighten me, though, is the halfway stage.
Rosie ThomasThings don't matter, people do
Rosie ThomasStichwörter: life friendship love
I am afraid of reduction. After a lifetime's independence- yes, selfish independence- I am terrified of being reduced to childhood once more, to helplessness, to seas of confusion from which the cruel lucid intervals poke up like rock shoals. I don't want to sit in my chair and be fed, much less do I want to be handed over to medical professionals.
Rosie ThomasStichwörter: fear death helplessness
As well as remembering too little, I have seen too much
Rosie ThomasStichwörter: memory
Some things I can never forget. I must not. Otherwise what do I have left?
Rosie ThomasStichwörter: memory
I need them and they need me to need them
Rosie ThomasStichwörter: friendship family
Try to capture what you can't bear to be without
Rosie ThomasI can only strive for what is important
Rosie ThomasStichwörter: motivational inspirational success hard-work
It's the fragment of your past that explains why you have lived your life the way you have done and made the mistakes that you have made
Rosie ThomasStichwörter: life
Like so many plain cups on the shelves. You can reach for them, use them without thinking. Most of them don't matter. Sometimes you lose your grip on one of them and it falls and smashes to piece, and you shrug and say to yourself, what a pity. Then you reach for the cup that you use every day, one that you love and use so often that as you stretch out your hand it is already making the shape that fits its curve. You are certain that yesterday it was in its proper place, but now there is nothing. Just air. You have lost something that was so familiar, so much a part of your life that you were not even looking for it. Just expecting it to be there, as always.
Rosie ThomasStichwörter: life friendship love loss
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