The Cost of Living

 

This morning we are both fine, old but fine. The world around me I pay for. I cannot maintain what I have. We care for feral cats. They were not ours, they belonged next door and we knew nothing about them. When our neighbor died our Tom went over there and brought a female home, then another, then another. Soon we had a place where feral cats lived and were fed. Now that we are aging the cats are becoming something we cannot care for.

Old age makes things difficult. I have a friend that I care about but I do not bother her as she is 2000 miles away and lives her own life. But I think about her.

I have my own life here in town and life is getting harder because it is difficult to live the way my brain thinks. I have one arm that is half bad and half good. Old age is difficult but I manage because I live in a society that makes it easy to live as long as I pay for the cost of living.