It is a great read...if you haven't, you should take the time to become acquainted with it.
This blog-post and that great novel share only two things in common:
-Title, and
-the observation that outside forces too often ruin a good thing.
I will leave that philosophy of the picture for another time.
My contention is that the passing of time and rust are the outside forces that have laid ruin to three cars and two gas pumps.
I would say that the passing of time and nature have done-in what was once quite possibly a very nice house.
And the something like rust, and the passing of time, and various other things are doing me in, too. Mostly the passing of time.
Over the passing of 71 years, body parts that used to work quite well now either have quit working or no longer work quite well.
I have offered up to the body-part graveyard, my thyroid, my appendix, my wisdom teeth, the tip of one finger, an anterior cruciate ligament, and a right hip.
The loss of my thyroid has been dealt with by taking drugs.
I didn't really need the appendix...what a strange vestigial organ that thing is.
Ditto on the wisdom teeth.
The finger-tip was a quite painful loss...resulting from some not-well-thought-out plan at my first job...but easily dealt with with the passing of the years.
The ACL was replaced with a portion of my patellar tendon.
The hip was replaced with an incredible thingy called "total hip replacement." It came with a price tag of just over $93K.
Other body parts that used to work quite well, no longer do. No details will be offered here.
One wonders just how long the really important stuff will keep working at all. Stuff like the heart, lungs, brain, digestive track, left elbow. Yeah, stuff like that.
Truth: outside forces too often ruin a good thing.
And that applies to the passing of time...and a lotta other things you are now free to think about and maybe do something about.
