the wisest of words

My mom and I have a great relationship. We talk nearly everyday, or at least try to. Lately she's be feelin' the pressure of Old Man Time and retirement plans. 

She said to me very plainly as I was blasting to work on Friday: 

"No one tells you that you get old. They don't prepare you. No one tells you it gets harder to make friends, and then the friends you do have move away or die! Hell you shit yourself unexpectedly sometimes, and then you die too!"

 Thus spake Kathy Moore on the facts of life.