O MISTRESS mine, where are you roaming?
O, stay and hear! your true love 's coming,
That can sing both high and low:
Trip no further, pretty sweeting;
Journeys end in lovers meeting,
Every wise man's son doth know.
What is love? 'tis not hereafter;
Present mirth hath present laughter;
What 's to come is still unsure:
In delay there lies no plenty;
Then come kiss me, sweet-and-twenty!
Youth 's a stuff will not endure.https://www.poetrysoup.com/famous/poems/short/youth#google_vignetteCol has been going through some old photographs - see above, from one of our early holidays at the Merritt's caravan on the Cornwall/Devon border. It makes me feel rather melancholy, but given my last blog was about old age, I thought maybe this one could be about youth. And once again, I will let Shakespeare speak.
More medical stuff on Wednesday. Blood test for Col - audiologist for me. Following on that, I have another Audio appointment on Friday - and of course the appointment to have the crown fitted on my treated tooth is looming up.
Talking of crowns, is our royal family, which has survived so much, going to survive the Epstein scandals - the depth of corruption that is being revealed? Time will tell.
Col brought me a new tap for my bathroom. The tap that came with my new bathroom doesn't seem to lend itself to something so simple as a new washer. And so it goes. If the present system of things on the earth lasts long enough, will one dripping tap require a whole new bathroom?
As these blogs have been a bit of a meditation on youth and old age, I can say this for sure. If someone said to me that they had a pill that could make me twenty years old again. Would I take it? No, No, and No again. Not unless I could go back then knowing exactly what I know now.
What I am hoping for is to live forever in the restored earthly paradise - in perfect health. And when I think of all I have learnt in the nearly 40 years I have been taught by the Jehovah's Witness congregation I wonder what it will be like to have been learning such wonderful things for 400 years - 4,000 years - etc?
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