But just because I buy Space Crusade doesn't mean I'll immediately start playing it. Situation :-(
...I've been thinking about it again... old age is truly awful.
Imagine: at the end of their dull, meaningless existence in modern society, a person spends an even duller and more meaningless old age. If they're lucky, they'll be in an apartment with their family. If they're not so lucky, they'll be somewhere far away, in a small apartment, alone. If they're really unlucky, they'll be in a nursing home, with nothing to do.
Their activities will be watching TV shows for housewives or cop shows, doing household chores – washing clothes, mopping the floor, maybe chatting with other old people.
And that's it. Day after day, for all the remaining years. Horrible, isn't it?
The only joy is talking to relatives, discussing petty gossip, like how Ashot gave a bag of potatoes for free to his third cousin, the sister's grandson of Barbara Anatolyevna, because they're "in the know."
And that's it. And with each day, life slowly fades away...
Diseases take over...
Migraines, sciatica, arthritis, high blood pressure, intestinal spasms, hemorrhoids, gastritis, etc., etc.
And then one day, after weeks of suffering, they lose consciousness and slowly fade away in the hospital. And then death. They're buried in the ground, to be eaten by worms and time...
And their relatives calmly divide their property and living space.
Horrible. I want to avoid ending up like that more than anything. I'd rather have an accident... a piece of ice falling on my head...
A car accident...
Or a heroic death in battle.
A battle against bureaucracy – the only thing you can fight against in our society today.
No matter what you do, it's always a dead end :-(