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Originally Posted by graciegirl
We aren't "stopping life". We are having fun inside and in the yards of our nice homes. I am cooking more and painting more and enjoying my wide community of friends on Facebook and Zooming our family in different parts of this world every Monday. Facebook allows many of us to laugh at each other and commiserate with each other daily, and we have a bunch of folks who do just that from The Villages. The only people who are missing this are the ones who think it is dangerous to communicate on Facebook. You certainly can't catch Covid-19 there.
We live together, my husband of 58 years, our daughter who is 55, and our two cats. We cook and clean and communicate with others in myriad ways. We enjoy the front porch and the back lanai and our pool. A lot of people have added pools recently here in The Villages. Husband plays 18 holes four times of week. Stays in his own cart, doesn't eat lunch out, doesn't touch anything anyone touches on the course. He is our "purchasing agent" and it has been fun and interesting to see what he brings home from the grocery. We are blessed to live in a home filled with laughter and fun and good health and don't really mind this pause in social interaction in person.
We have seen far worse and far scarier times than this. Two of us have survived cancer. One of us have had three operations with the heart lung machine...not heart surgery with stents. We have lived long enough to have witnessed extreme sadness and loss of life to those we loved and heartbreaking situations. Our home today is a sweet retreat and soft place to land for awhile.
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What a lovely post ! I must confess I'm not a FB person, only looked at some pages a few times, don't even have a profile and page and all that, but my point is it brings you joy, golf brings your husband joy, what makes me so curious is WHY people are so nasty (on here, on FB, etc.). If someone says they are not interested in going into pools at this time, another will make some nasty comment, almost a subtle way to make fun of them for "not living". I've seen the same thing on posts about folks who still enjoy going out to lunch and dinner, then others feel compelled to make a nasty comment like on I saw on Facebook page that said " hope you enjoy that dinner with a side of ventilator" ! Can you imagine, a human being, a fellow resident, feeling compelled to write something like that to another retired person here just because they decided not to allow the possibility of a random virus making them ill to keep them from celebrating a birthday as they wished ? Is it the relative anonymity that makes people so judgmental and nasty to others when they are on these on line forums ? BTW, like you, I've been home more and cooking more.... trying more new recipes than I have for some years...LOL ! No place to go, used to love concerts, plays, going to the symphony in Orlando, and yes, TOTV which I have not been on this much for years, but just don't feel compelled to condemn my neighbors for swimming, golfing, biking, or just staying in reading, on computer, and binge TV watching....LOL ! Again, what a great uplifting post, live your life in the way that gives you pleasure
