It's happening. It's happening. Welcome to fifty plus, the Audio Edition.
So I was actually posting a picture on my social medium and I realized both
persons in the picture are both dead. The other day I was looking at
a picture I found and me with two people. Those two pople are dead.
I'm finding and many of us fifty plus I'm finding this out. We're
starting to get to the point where pictures in pictures, people are gone that
we hung out with. I'm not talking about great great grandparents from eighteen twelve.
I'm talking about a distant relative. You got a picture I'm talking and
I'm talking about when you were a baby and a picture of a grandmother.
I'm talking about people are in my life into my forties and sometimes fifties.
People were in my life into my thirties, that I actually had them in
my life as they are gone and depending on it because I have a big
family, but I have big friends, lots of friends. It depends on
how people, you know, how oftenness will occur. Right, I always
talk about I've talked about this in another show about how I have a picture
of nine of us, nine guys from like nineteen eighty nine or something at
eighty nine, and only seven of us are left, sorry, only two
of us are left. Seven have passed away. That picture is very profound
because it's that was AIDS crisis and the seven all dinabates the complications from it,
and me and the remaining person we're still friends to this day. There
are pictures just of co workers the past who are around my age or whatever
or a little older, and they passed away various ways. I've lost on
my grandparents and great grandparents and god parents. So I mean all that,
it's like, that's so I have that too. Now I've lost two stepdads.
I have that too. It's just like it's really it's a little weird.
You look at it, go wow, everyone in this picture is not
here anymore. But I have a connection to each one of them. So
it's like, so that's an esoteric thing, like I actually knew them,
or I remember this memory, I was there when or I took the picture.
But it's happening more and more, and you know, and depending on
who's passed away and how they passed with your relationship and how long ago can
bring a swing different emotions, right, I mean, there are times where
certain pictures made me cry, something made me laugh, some mad me go,
Oh my goodness. I was going through my Facebook, because Facebook memories.
If you're on Facebook, it doesn't too where it's like five years ago,
eight years ago. Now I got fifteen years ago. I'ment on facing
fifteen years, fifteen years ago. And I was looking for a picture of
a picture of me and someone else and scrolling ran across people who aren't along
with us. Just my friend marcussis gone, my friend Christopher Neam gone,
my friend Greg Marino gone. And they all weren'tut, they weren't old.
No in the world, they're gone. And I just start thinking, it's
just like wow, you stop for a second. You know they're you know,
my friend Mark, especially, we had reunited after nineteen years apart.
We had reunited in person in New York. The last night I saw him
was from my great grandmother's funeral. I was back there from Miss Arthoretta,
and I had to get tied away from the family. I said, I'm
gonna go see a friend, and I was in nineteen ninety four. Then
nineteen years later we met up again. I came back to New York.
I was going to all the time. I just started catch up with them.
We actually met up and I was just thinking about how we went and
had. We met at a coffee place and then we had a drink,
and then we walked up Yorks Waukinge City and ran to a friend of his.
It's random, ran to a friend of his, went to his friend's
house. Something that was really cute. I mean, I love see New
York City apartments. Then we went to dinner and we just had it.
We had a really great time. I just like, wow, it was
a really good time. So we reconnected basically, and then on Facebook were
reconnected and I kept thinking back to you when I we met him in nineteen
ninety four on New Years and there was no Internet or anything like that,
and we just met. He gave me his card out here somewhere and we
kept touched by phone, folks crazy thoughts by phone, and we come just
the whole time. But then Facebook brought us back together and it actually went
there and saw him and I was going to New York anyway, and I
saw him. I was there, and a couple of years ago he passed
away. He got really sick and now recovered. He was not much older
than me. It was kind of crazy whole lifetime. My friend Christopher diam
we even had a little falling out before he died. I thought he just
wasn't he had changed the person. But we have like ten fifteen years together
before that that we were super, super super close. We went through a
lot together and so it didn't diminish how much I cared about him. Of
course, stepdad Larry. I was trying to go see him. Actually we
had talked like a few weeks before he died, and it was just like
I was gonna try. I'm trying to go see I'm gonna I went to
his house once and he wasn't there. The one he said, the one
time he actually left his house, he was like he always was at home.
And we laughed about that, and our last text was like this funny
we always talked to each other as we always did, and he's gone.
It's just like, it's just it's so great. My friend Greg, we
talked on a zoom We had a zoom call for like three hours and we
talked about stuff, and he had a script to it, talking about he
wanted me to look at and he wanted to come back to LA, and
I was like, come, I to La, Let's do it. I'm
doing it, Let's do it. And then he got sick and died really
fast. So it's just it's a tripy and I'm looking around my room right
now. I have a picture of me and a person who passed away,
a picture of me in a person who passed away to him right here,
one in night sinety one and one a few years ago. So this is
kind of it's a trip, and it is and this is the age.
I mean, it's if somebody else touched a little earlier or later, but
this is the age group fifty plus we started seeing that. I'm James E.
Junior, fifty plus. It's audio and usually video, but I am
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