WHAT ELSE DO YOU WANT TO DO???
Long Beach Island, NJ
August 1985
I remember the last time I saw my grandmother, Ida. It was the end of summer and I was heading
back to college. She was 85 and I was
31. She was so healthy that she could
have lived forever in my opinion. Her
mind was sharp and she was still full of life.
But as I said goodbye to her, the thought crossed my mind that this
time might be the last time we would
ever see each other. The same thought
must have crossed her mind as well as we held each other just a moment longer
than usual and I think, like me, there was a tear in her eye as we finally let
go.
“Ida,” I asked her, “is there any thing more you wan to do
with your life? Any thing else left to
do?”
“Oh, there are always things to do. But I’d like to take a trip around the world one more time”, she told me without hesitation. She was a world traveler who never lost her
wanderlust. Then she continued, “And you
know, I really want to take a computer course.
I don’t understand computers and I feel as if I am being left
behind. I need to take a class or
something. I don’t want to miss out.”
When I am 85, I can only hope that I will be that full of
life.
