forever young- MESSAGE to Bob...

 YOU saved my life tonight Bob. Earlier I pm'd a friend to find out the situation with one of my best friends.

He had a pain in his back and the doctors said it was a cyst on his his spine. They operated and removed it but the result was he became a tetraplegic.

Very sad. He was a follower of krishnamurti and he used to say that when he was retired then they would be his best years and then fate struck him down with a vicious blow.

exis tential philosophy just does not and cannot explain the mysterys of why life dishes out this and that.

I cried for hours today when I heard that things aint good. I want to go and see him but it is a long way now and more than I think I could put up with. buses planes and that stuff.

When I lived in the backblocks many years ago cultivating the best of the best my friend would come over and listen to planet waves for hours with the headphones on. 

Sometimes I would go over to the big smoke and he would come back and we would blow one in tghe Otira tunnel with the window openin the toilet.

He loved forever young. Funnily enough when I had the lp I never listened to it myself??

I was more a HIghway 61 man.

Eventually I got around to actually learning the song which I intended to play for him next time we met.

Times passed and we lost touch even though I tried to get back in touch but the phone had gone.

Later I found out what fate had done  and I cried for him long and hard.

What happened was I had an enforced holiday from FB. The right whingers dug up everything I had ever posted and I got a month off.

When I got back on all my lists and frtiends had evaporated but there was an old friend on the people you might know so I made congtact and he gave the bad news. I was crushed.

Things like that are not supposed to happen to the beautiful people.

About two weeks ago I found a copy of No Direction Home minus disc 1.

It was  an ocd moment when I decided I was never going to watch it but tonight I put it in the dvd player and gave it a spin for old times sake.

It really boosted me back up as I remembered the good times we had when we were young and even though times have made us old and becoming frail and losing memeory we still had good times and tonight I will pray even harder for his soul.

Thats allnow else I am going to crack up again. 

The times chnaged and the wheel of fortune spun and dished out the hands and there is nothing that can be done about that.