Answer One Question...What Makes You happy?

The Oracle

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On the slopes of Mount Parnassus, Greece

Sometimes you just need a break...
Happy endings always make me happy.
 
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I need a love to keep me happy
I need a love to keep me happy
Baby, baby keep me happy
Baby, baby keep me happy
 
Zeppelin did not always make sense but the below I agree with.

"I live for my dream and a pocketful of gold"
 
Let's go down the rabbit hole then. How much support does the widow/widower have if they have kids they don't get along with or kids live very far away?
True. No guarantees. Spouse could die first and who knows with the kids if there are any.
 
For those wondering about dying alone... we all die alone. It is the fear of dying alone that we fear. And as many people have found, having children, being married etc can just as easily cause your living years to be a worse fate.

This Jackson Browne song from 1974 has some poignant lyrics to consider. Along with it being a beautiful song.

"No matter what fate chooses to play (there's nothing you can do about it anyway)
Just do the steps that you've been shown
By everyone you've ever known
Until the dance becomes your very own
No matter how close to yours
Another's steps have grown
In the end there is one dance you'll do alone

Keep a fire for the human race
Let your prayers go drifting into space
You never know what will be coming down
Perhaps a better world is drawing near
Just as easily it could all disappear
Along with whatever meaning you might have found
Don't let the uncertainty turn you around
(The world keeps turning around and around) go on and make a joyful sound"



 
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WRT to the meaning of the song....
  • "I wrote this for a friend of mine who died in a fire," Browne said of the poignant song in 2016. "He was in the sauna in a house that burned down, so he had no idea anything was going on. It was very sad. He was a really interesting guy. Besides being a great dancer, he was an ice skater - he had a job in the Ice Follies. And he was a great tailor - he would make his friends clothes. He was a Renaissance man. When I wrote him the song - it's a song I've sung many times, other times when people have died - but I was making a metaphor out of the dance. Just the idea that your life is a dance. And there's a line in it, 'In the end, there is one dance you do alone.' That's one of the songs I've sung all through the years, and for me, it's like going to that place, and dealing with the fact that life will end. It's a sad song, but at the same time, it feels good to sort through that reality and touch base with it, and then go on." >>
  • Browne sang this at Phil Hartman's memorial service in 1998. It was also played at John Belushi's service in 1982.
  • After Jackson Browne's wife, the model Phyllis Major, died in 1976, some songs he'd written before became mysteriously about the tragic event. After writing "For A Dancer" about a friend who died when he was living with Major, it gradually became about her. "That's how songs work," he told Mojo magazine. "They migrate into other parts of your life and other experiences."

 
No. But I wonder how much support all these single people will have at the end stage.
Just because someone is single, doesn’t mean they won’t have support. I have 5 great friends who would be there to support me. Friendships that are deep and meaningful and full of love, trust and of course support.

I don’t need a romantic relationship because I have such close friends and the independence to care for myself.

I have friends for different hobbies, adventures. I can travel with all of them without issue and if you are a seasoned traveller, you know that you can’t always handle a vacay with certain friends or family.

You can go to a long term care home and find dozens of seniors who all had married, had kids, etc and no one comes to visit them. They are truly alone.

It will never be like that for me. Or for any of my friends because if I’m still alive and healthy, I will be there to support them in anyway possible. That is what true friendship means.

I feel sorry for those who don’t know what it is like to have friendships like I have. Who have to rely on being in a romantic relationship to have support and even then, most times, they still don’t get it when they need it anyways.