Great Pool Today With A Gentleman

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AzB Silver Member
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I played pool against a 92 year-old man today with all his wits about him and he could really play well. We played for 4 hours and I'm the one who had to quit from getting tired! He shot very well and to my extreme surprise, not once, repeat, not once did he ever tell me what shot I should make.

He was an old time pool gentleman.

Usually in the billiard rooms I go to, there's always 2 or 3 guys who just can't help but stick their noses in and tell me (and everyone else playing) what my next shot should be.

The game they all play is 1-15 (aka "Alabama 8-Ball").:)
 
Your post touches upon a kernel of wisdom commonly expressed in one form or another by folks who comfortably reach their ninth and tenth decade (and not infrequently beyond) with all their faculties intact, essentially healthy in mind and optimistic spirit, at ease with themselves and life itself and their place within it, seemingly continually grateful for the few, fleeting cosmic seconds they've been so abundantly granted here.

And their simple secret to their health, their enviable long years, and their visible contentment?

-- Let others enjoy their commonplace, innocent pleasurable thoughts and activities and rejoice at any chance to join them with never any needless diminishing of their pleasure or your own. Seems a simple path they likely realized many years before. I've never failed to notice this common, generous characteristic of folks routinely happy well up in years.

Arnaldo
 
arnaldo said:
Your post touches upon a kernel of wisdom commonly expressed in one form or another by folks who comfortably reach their ninth and tenth decade (and not infrequently beyond) with all their faculties intact, essentially healthy in mind and optimistic spirit, at ease with themselves and life itself and their place within it, seemingly continually grateful for the few, fleeting cosmic seconds they've been so abundantly granted here.

And their simple secret to their health, their enviable long years, and their visible contentment?

-- Let others enjoy their commonplace, innocent pleasurable thoughts and activities and rejoice at any chance to join them with never any needless diminishing of their pleasure or your own. Seems a simple path they likely realized many years before. I've never failed to notice this common, generous characteristic of folks routinely happy well up in years.

Arnaldo
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So eloquently expressed. Thank you.
 
arnaldo said:
Your post touches upon a kernel of wisdom commonly expressed in one form or another by folks who comfortably reach their ninth and tenth decade (and not infrequently beyond) with all their faculties intact, essentially healthy in mind and optimistic spirit, at ease with themselves and life itself and their place within it, seemingly continually grateful for the few, fleeting cosmic seconds they've been so abundantly granted here.

And their simple secret to their health, their enviable long years, and their visible contentment?

-- Let others enjoy their commonplace, innocent pleasurable thoughts and activities and rejoice at any chance to join them with never any needless diminishing of their pleasure or your own. Seems a simple path they likely realized many years before. I've never failed to notice this common, generous characteristic of folks routinely happy well up in years.

Arnaldo
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Tap, tap, tap

Hope that's me in 3 decades ! :thumbup:
 
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