# Put All Your Inspirational And/Or Philosophical Writings HERE!!!

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**Post date:** [September 20, 2006, 1:57pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/put-all-your-inspirational-and-or-philosophical-writings-here/690/1 "2006-09-20T13:57:01Z")

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I had some really lovely PMs from people who thought the poem I posted in Lancefist’s topic was very thought-provoking, and had never seen it before - so it inspired me to start a nice wee thread here, where we can put all sorts of stuff.

I will start by reposting Jenny Joseph’s hilarious and very famous Poem.

Warning!

When I am Old  
I will wear Purple!

When I am an old woman,  
I shall wear purple - -  
With a red hat which doesn’t go,  
and doesn’t suit me.

And I shall spend my pension  
on brandy and summer gloves and satin sandals,  
And say we’ve no money for butter.

I shall sit down on the pavement when I’m tired  
and gobble up samples in shops  
and press alarm bells  
and run with my stick along public railings,  
and make up for the sobriety of my youth.

I shall go out in my slippers in the rain  
and pick flowers in other people’s gardens  
and learn to spit!

You can wear terrible shirts and grow more fat  
and eat three pounds of sausages at one go,  
or only bread and pickles for a week,  
and hoard pens and pencils  
and beermats and things in boxes.

But now…we must have clothes that keep us dry,  
and pay our rent  
and not swear in the street,  
and set a good example for the children.

We must have friends to dinner  
and read the papers.  
But maybe I ought to practice a little now?

So people who know me  
are not too shocked and surprised  
when suddenly I am old,  
And start to wear purple! ^\_\_\_\_\_\_\_^

The message here, is obviously ENJOY LIFE - you’ve only got one, and it ain’t a dress rehearsal, folks!

Live every day as if it is your last. After all..one day - you will be right…

Ail 🙂