The next several years...friends fading away?

I realize this is a question probably for the older SWeeps here, but are you dreading the next few years? I am. I just received word of a friend and bandmate's declining health--he says he can no longer play--and my fear is that, as he battles his illness, that he is probably not long for this world. But he's been sick for a while now. Then, I begin thinking of others who aren't in the shape they once were and it becomes a huge anxious death-spiral.

After all, our timelines intrinsically overlap. I've said it to many of my friends--either I'm going to your funeral or you're going to mine.

Are any of you feeling this way?

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bijouxbroussard · F

Yes…I recently found out that someone I once loved deeply (but still considered a friend) passed away last month. My small circle of friends keeps dwindling. Now I’m understanding how my parents were feeling. When I was younger, my mother especially had so many friends, mostly through church and social groups she was a part of. Pop had his friends from his fraternity. But it got so that they were attending funerals every week. Mom used to say that "if you live a long life, this is the payoff."