Not to worry about digressing …everybody does it. I'll be 69 next month and was planning on getting a RAW myself. What say ... after we have had both guns for 25 years … we get together and have an old fashioned boot scootin' boogie at your 100 yard range between your gun and mine. Winner takes all … if I win, I get your gun and if you win, you get mine. Methinks the only thing we will have to worry about in the future is having the fire insurance on the house paid up and all our fire extinguishers fully charged … cause that many candles on a cake is gonna make a huge bonfire. Don't think of aging as the glass being half empty or half full and certainly not "oh gosh, I'm running out of time" … try thinking in the sense that you are getting younger … only in reverse.
An old Native American Indian chief taught me what was really important. He said, " What matters in life is whether you are REAL or not. REAL isn't how you are made ... it's something that happens to you along the way … it takes a long time. When you are REAL, you don't mind being hurt, it's simply another part of life. There is a ying and a yang and a balance to life. Usually, becoming REAL doesn't happen to people who break easily … or have sharp edges … or who have been carefully kept. Generally, by the time you become REAL … most of your hair has been loved off … and your eyes drop out … and you get loose in the joints … and sometimes you get a little shabby lookin' … but these things don't matter none … because once you are REAL, you can't be ugly, except to people who just don't understand.
Just remember to enjoy life, always be around people that you like and can have a good conversation with. There are soooooo many positive things to think about so enjoy life, don't let anything get you down for long, lighten up, loosen up, smile more, laugh more and don't take yourself too seriously. As I always say
Love, Live and Laugh
It's a short pony ride
John
Oh yeah, great lookin' group and great lookin' gun