Hello OMJers.
I rarely comment on the bad news and poor situations revealed on here.
It's not that I don't care, I definitely do.
Just that I don't know you lot in the real world like most of you do, so don't want to feel shallowly gratuitous with my words.
That said, we are at an age where ourselves and our close loved ones are incurring pain and death.
And I don't think it is going to go away.😞
My heart goes out to everyone feeling pain and sadness as we find ourselves well into the second half of our match.
I still keep in touch with my old school and teenage mates, both from school and football, and see it week to week in our lives.
"they are picking from our pot now," as somebody cheerfully proclaimed.😕
My school year was 1980, so all 60 this year, me being last in July.
One of the livelier ones "celebrated" his big birthday in a hospice near Bolton. Got stomach cancer last spring and it's caught him quick.
The contrast between the photos from last April and January this year are awful.😩 A fit fella who used to do Marathons in the 80s and 90s.
The Class of 1980 are meeting up tomorrow afternoon in Salford. Usually about 8-10 but there may be up to 15 this time. A show of defiance maybe before the inevitable next meet up at the funeral...
Don't know how to finish this apart from that I hope anybody suffering finds the strength and acceptance to deal with any bad news.