I heard an old friend of mine in young days passed away from a mutual friend. No detailed info yet. It seems he died unexpectedly.
My aunt, having managed the sanatorium at this place and closing it decades ago, moved to a new place unknown to her. He was a neighbor to her there and always helped her since she had no relatives nor friends at all there. He seemed to have faith in Christianity influenced by her.
In my teen age days, I often visited my aunt in summer holidays. I have known him then. He was also kind to me. We have driven around the area or have gone for fishing together. It has been a haunting memory for me. I wanted to thank him for his kindness to my aunt as well as to me. My younger brother told me he had met him there also and had been treated nicely by him.
Not much known to me regarding his life after that. He has later worked as a helper at a care facility and as staff at a hospice. That career seems to indicate what a polite and kind person he has been. I should have visited him those days. But the chance has been eternally lost. How has he lived? Any family members survived? I consequently gave questions to the person who let me know of his passing. No answer yet.
In elderly, we are deprived of own capabilities, social status or relationship with people well known to us. The last often comes on as their decease. Getting older is that process of losing things for everyone in the world.
I almost flinched at that news of his passing. My mind still remained heavy.
Time would solve such an emotion and sadness of loss making it accumulated it into the depth of memories. The pain would not leave me for a long time, though.
Among things we lose in elderly, such relationship with friends or with family members should be most important, I learn it from this experience. That is why I feel his death as such a heavy and unbearable loss. The ultimate aim in our lives should be such a relationship. Such as social status, wealth or capabilities are not essential but fleeting in life.
It might be a bit too late for me but it is worth realizing it. It is another meaning of aging.
I am 75 and I follow your blog every day now from the United States. There is so much to do. I am working on preserving the memories and stories of my ancestors -- Parents, Grandparents, Great-Grandparents and earlier. Helping my neighbors and making contact with my friends from the past. Please share any helpful ideas that you may have.
ReplyDeleteWe sure belong to the same generation. It is interesting you are trying to investigate your family tree. Is it for yourself or for your descendents? You may find a lot of things related with it. It may activate yourself. As for me, I am more intersted in the modern history of our country. What has the Japanese military done in China and SE Asia? How our ancestors obeyed or even have become enthusiastic about invation to those countries? It was the question my father, formerly in Japanese military service, used to have. You seem to live a fruitful life for yourself. I would learn more on what you are doing to fill your life. Thanks for dropping by.
DeleteI have just read your 1,604 articles. The top 20 of the word count is:
ReplyDelete32809 the
17647 to
15569 of
15316 in
14653 a
13296 i
10759 it
8611 and
7931 for
7666 is
6620 was
6117 this
6079 have
5311 with
5282 as
4874 that
4478 be
4434 has
4413 on
4139 at
Gemini (Google's AI) says:
-- begin quote --
This distribution looks entirely natural and is a perfect example of Zipf's Law in action.
1. Zipf's Law and "Stop Words"
In any large body of English text, the most frequent words are almost always "stop words"—functional words like the, of, and, and to that provide grammatical structure rather than specific meaning.
The "Double" Rule: Zipf's Law predicts that the most frequent word (the) will occur approximately twice as often as the second most frequent word (to).
Your Data: Your count for the (32,809) is indeed nearly double your count for to (17,647). This is a strong sign that your scraper successfully captured a massive, representative sample of natural language.
2. Observations on your specific counts
The list tells us a bit about the "voice" of the blog you scraped:
The "I" Factor: The word "i" is very high (6th place, 13,296). This confirms that this is a personal blog or a collection of first-person narratives rather than a formal academic or news site.
Past vs. Present: "was" (6,620) and "is" (7,666) are both high, suggesting the writing balances storytelling (past tense) with current reflections (present tense).
-- end quote --
Very good observations of an AI, don't you agree?