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Day to Day happenings in my life

by Sumojo

Rated: 13+ · Book · Personal · #2186156

The simplicity of my day to day.

This is where I write my thoughts, feelings and my daily trials, tribulations and happy things

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Joy

about 8 hours ago
In response to "Relevance"

I so agree with you about us seniors, in general.
Yet, then, there's those of us who live alone and try to be as independent as possible. We might have become a burden, here in the USA, to Social Security and Medicare, but we at least have worked for it and prepaid for all that, during our past lives. Not that all the people today can understand it!

Whiskerfacebythefireplace

about 12 hours ago
In response to "Eternal vigilance "

True. I received an email from a friend. Maybe I didn't. But I'm in the U.S. The suffix was .de. Why do I need to respond to my invite through Germany? I looked up the organization, and it seems like something my friend would care about. Am I being scammed, or is this real? I plan to call her today and find out. After all, you can't trust your email.

Joy

Mar 1, 2026 at 3:47pm
In response to "Eternal vigilance "

Good entry
And yes, so true and so tiring that vigilance becomes! I'm afraid to answer any emails, let alone click on any links. I hope and pray things can get better before they get any worse.

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Soldier_Mike

Feb 28, 2026 at 8:27pm
In response to "Changes for changes sake"

I'm with you, phone-wise, Sue! I have a perfectly good flip-phone lying around. It still takes pictures, and may be able to send them via Bluetooth; I haven't tried in awhile, so I can't be sure. The reason I don't use it anymore, is because the Service provider shut down the 3G network it ran on. This forced me to start using my wife's old smartphone, which ran on 4G. I'd still be using it, except that it ran out of memory. There were times I couldn't even send a simple text message.

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Witchy Yule Woman

Feb 27, 2026 at 11:11pm
In response to "Memorable Experience "

Leaving one country to go to another is definitely a book worth writing, because so many people dream of it but never do it.

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Apondia

Feb 27, 2026 at 4:20pm
In response to "Memorable Experience "

THe more years you live the more memories you have. Just a book waiting to be written.

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Witchy Yule Woman

Feb 27, 2026 at 12:44am
In response to "Leniency "

That's typically the same penalty here in the states. You're right the lives they've taken pay a lot more.

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Witchy Yule Woman

Feb 25, 2026 at 9:39pm
In response to "Keeping up with the latest news "

I don't think it would be a good thing to remove painful memories because it's part of our evolving. If we had no painful memories how would we grow into a better person or sadly into a worse person like some do.

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Witchy Yule Woman

Feb 19, 2026 at 10:25pm
In response to "Olympics"

The skating is my favorite event followed by the luge and bobsled events. I agree the camera and drone coverage has been excellent.

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Joy

Feb 8, 2026 at 4:05pm
In response to "Friends"

Nice entry. It, not having too large a group of friends, shows that you can see into people deeply and act sincerely in their presence.
I used to have several groups of friends when young, but in old age, life has thrown us all over the world and we can only communicate online and sometimes, not even that.

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March 3, 2026 at 4:58am

#1109684

Relevance

Prompt: In This 21st Century

"Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century," said someone named Perelman. Was he right?

What and how do you believe we are now doing here in the 21st century

I'm unsure of what he really meant. I agree we all continue to learn each day we're alive, it would be a most unusual day to not learn something new, one only has to turn on the television.
But what did he mean when he says most adults will be learning for a living?
I guess he could mean technology moves on at such a rapid pace that we need to keep learning just to keep up. I've seen this in my life as I attempt to keep abreast of all the things I need to master, just to do what used to be the simplest of things, such as banking. And yet my husband has never even tried. He says he has an analogue brain. I think its a cop out, as now I'm the one to do anything thats even slightly techy. I agree it would be difficult for him now to start learning at 82.

Your question was "What and how do you believe we are now doing here in the 21st century?" Now that's a biggie. I often wonder what we older people, the ones who no longer work for a living, are actually doing here.The news often report the country"s population is aging, we're a problem. We take up beds in hospitals, there are not enough care homes, adult children are getting sandwiched between their children and their parents. Honestl in my opinion seniors are no longer valued for their insights and attained wisdom and knowledge.

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March 1, 2026 at 9:33pm

#1109596

Uninvent

One invention I could stop being invented?

Oh my goodness, my mind is flitting around and coming up with many things. I'm guessing though that even the things I personally dislike has probably done some good somewhere and to someone. After all what's the saying? It's an ill wind which blows no good?

Today, when the world is looking even less secure, this question makes me think of all those weapons being thrown around causing so many deaths and injuries. So my choices for this question are: land mines and nuclear weapons.

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March 1, 2026 at 12:32am

#1109522

Eternal vigilance

Prompt "The price of Liberty is eternal vigilance."

Human beings have always had to be vigilant. Whether by keeping safe from marauding beasts way back when, or at other times avoiding being robbed by a masked Highway Man. There were those times when a fellow could be hi jacked off the street and forced to man a ship heading to another land. Pioneers needed to be vigilant to avoid being killed by natives when trespassing on their lands. So it seems to keep one's liberty eternal vigilance has been called for since the days of the caveman.

Certainly nothing has changed. In today's technological world it's even harder. Scams are an everyday occurrence in everyone's lives. It's even harder today as we are gradually being programmed to suspect everything and everyone. Now with all the fake news and AI we really can't believe our eyes or ears. So now we need to presume it's not real until they can prove it is. What do you think this is doing to our psyche? We live in a constant state of vigilance, more than at any other time in our history.

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