Sam Cutler has a good outlook on his mortality

Saw this on facebook today.

This is a guy who probably hasn't seen it all, but he's seen as much as just about anyone.

He's a very eloquent writer, and I met him a few times at TxR and he was nothing but charming & kind.

Live long & prosper Sam.

"LIFE:

goes up and down like a whore's drawers. Who's to know what might eventuate? Today I'm happy. Chelsea won their Champion's League game and are through to the quarter finals for the first time in many years. I am also approaching the 'end game(s)' of my life and am now (once again) engaged in serious 'psychic warfare' with two more incidents of cancer.

I am now up to the sixth and seventh 'battle' with this disease and who's to say what will happen ? I place my faith in the medical profession who've assisted me through five battles, now there are two more to deal with. I remain phlegmatic and practical, for all life must eventually transform back into the carbon from whence it came. I'm no different. I accept it ALL with unruffled equanimity. PLEASE don't send me lots of messages saying how sorry you are !! Be glad, learn that life is an absolute lottery and what happens to you is largely dictated by forces beyond your immediate control. Learn to accept what happens with a good grace. With a rueful smile. It's a funny old business, so count the blessing that eventuate and bear the misfortunes with stoic fortitude. Above all don't stress about anything ! Stress is the enemy. Accept it all for what it is, a random series of peculiar events in which one may just be able to bear playing a part.

One love, I'm off to get a coffee and read the newspaper ... it is always amusing to see the 'dominant narrative' that is promulgated by the media in a concerted 'attack' on our collective consciousness. We are told from all quarters to be 'afraid' of China. What nonsense ! Show me the millions of people who have been killed by expansionist hegemonic bombing by China and I'll point to those dear peace-living Americans who have managed to bomb most of the world in order to 'save it' for democracy. A plague, I say, on both their houses. I want to be neither saved nor dominated, by either America or China and whilst they're at it I'd be most grateful if they'd refrain from bombing me. All I want to do is live in peace until I die, thereafter (to tell the honest truth) I'll have nothing to do with any of it.

It's a funny old world, all that remains for me is to finish my book "Friend of the Devil" and then I can finally relax. Onwards to the end."