Saturday, January 28, 2012

physical infirmity and mental weariness

From Martin Gilbert's memoir of his life's work as biographer of
Winston Churchill, "In Search of Churchill" page 316:

"As I sat on the terrace at the spot overlooking the lakes where
Churchill had sat in his last years, my search reached its final phase.
'Old age is intolerable,' he would say to those nearest to him, as he
struggled bravely through increased physical infirmity and mental
weariness. 'My life is over, but not yet ended,' he had told his
daughter Diana some years before."

I feel as though Churchill and Gilbert's words could apply with equal
accuracy to those of us who have ME. Only we are not yet approaching 90.

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