LIFE AS A HUMAN https://lifeasahuman.com The online magazine for evolving minds. Mon, 22 Dec 2025 20:45:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 29644249 There Was A Time https://lifeasahuman.com/2025/home-living/life-vignettes/there-was-a-time/ https://lifeasahuman.com/2025/home-living/life-vignettes/there-was-a-time/#respond Mon, 22 Dec 2025 16:56:07 +0000 https://lifeasahuman.com/?p=408069&preview=true&preview_id=408069 There was a time
There was a time when our bodies were strong
Or at least we thought so
There was a time when we had no limits
No limits, wow!
We could choose
We could choose to be or to do whatever
Whatever
But when did this change?
How did this change?
Slowing creeping and with difficult acceptance
Do we ever accept?
Do we ever accept that our potential is limited?
Do we ever accept that we have now lost our potential?
No
Maybe we accept that our potential is now limited
But not no potential
Growing old is difficult, even though it comes without intent
It just arrives

JTA 7/2025

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Jack Andrish

I am a retired orthopaedic surgeon living in Cleveland Ohio. However, while visiting my brother-in-law in Key West and watching the world go by as I sat on the porch, I was inspired to record my thoughts and observations.

 

 

 

]]> https://lifeasahuman.com/2025/home-living/life-vignettes/there-was-a-time/feed/ 0 408069 Observations from a Porch in Key West https://lifeasahuman.com/2024/vignettes/observations-from-a-porch-in-key-west/ https://lifeasahuman.com/2024/vignettes/observations-from-a-porch-in-key-west/#respond Sun, 14 Apr 2024 06:20:36 +0000 https://lifeasahuman.com/?p=406107 I watch them. I watch the diversity of the human race. I watch the shapes and sizes. I watch the many variations of gait. I watch the bold; the confident; the young. I watch the hesitant; the lame; the old. I watch the clear eyed; I watch the bleary eyed. What does this all mean? A cycle of life? An obligatory cycle of life. I watch them and recognize that we all are a part of that obligatory cycle. We are born innocent. We develop confidence in ourselves as we transform into the boldness of youth. Understanding? Not really; just the innocence of youth. But with time comes experience and with experience comes wisdom; or at least recognition. However, there is a great diversity of experience within the human race and with that diversity comes the great diversity of recognition; of wisdom; of transformation. How mystical that diversity is within the human race. I watch them go by. And I am one of them.

…. Jack Andrish
2022

Jack at Key West

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Guest Author Bio
Jack Andrish

I am a retired orthopaedic surgeon living in Cleveland Ohio. However, while visiting my brother-in-law in Key West and watching the world go by as I sat on the porch, I was inspired to record my thoughts and observations.

 

 

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