hmm.. good stuff

did anyone see old school? i know some of you did. actually since the only person who i know reads this is Shannon, and i watched it with her, i know she's seen it. late in that movie one character is told by his new and estranged wife that she wants to get divorced.. his reply is "oh, ok.. good stuff... see ya 'round" or something like that, you'd have to ask shannon for verbatim replay. but the point is the way he said 'good stuff' for stuff that was far from good, and you could see in his eyes that it was hard and sad, and he really couldn't have said what he felt. it's very interesting though. Today i spoke with shannon about her grandfather who is lately on a respirator. this obvious reminder of his aging reminded her of what i called life.. of course it's possible and required to use a less broad and vague term to explain that. but we talked about the similarities between her family and mine when it comes to geriatric issues. i suppose it could be true what they say about the receding midlife crises among 20somethings. they used to happen inthe middle of life.. 40-50s you know.. so then they say the midlife crisis is getting earlier for people. i don't think it's true.. i think they just didn't write about the issues of every other age. people of all ages have crises.. young people have them, old people have them. some people odn't feel like they ever have a crisis. some find crises in almost everything that happens around them. the universe presents us all with events.. whatwe do with them is up to our perception of them, since that's how they enter our consciousness. we percieve them and then process them. that's how we can percieve similar situations and get entirely different life experiences out of them. well.. that's good enough for me. that explains how in five elements we see different constitutions, everyone has a kind of a filter they see the worldthrough, a set of issues that color their perceptions before others do. so so like what do you think about when you have a stressor? some people worry, some cry, some laugh, some get tired.. some get sick, some get angry, some withdraw.. it's all very individual.. so to tie this back to me and shannon this afternoon, it made me think about how i dealt with hearing about my aging grandpa, and how shannon would deal with hers. would she get used to it like i did? or would she do something else with it? make her life somehow different to cope somehow with the aging of her family? i think i didn't get used to it. i just am busy so i don't afford myself time to process it.. but it hasn't made me go to visit, or anything like that. maybe i will one of these days. regardless..i guess it leaves me with one final thought... that character in old school said good stuff when it wasn't good, or at least didn't seem good on the surface.. but you could see how it was ok, better they be divorced.. meh. anyway. i've written something of substance in my blog. there you go.