@roballen5718

3 years ago

great to watch this, again. Pink Floyd have kept me going for a long time, now. in 2006 i was diagnosed with end stage emphysema and was given just a few months to live, at most. during most of that time, i've been somewhat housebound, completely so, over the past 5 years. this year, everyone has had a taste of what it's been like for me. music has kept me going. no-one knows why i'm still alive. for the 3 months, from mid December onward, i was so ill, with a chest infection that wouldn't go, no-one expected me to survive it. i had 2 stays in hospital, one for pneumonia. youtube, with all the great music on it, has really kept me going. Pink Floyd, especially. i listen to them every day. without all the music i have at my fingertips, i doubt i would still be here. i think, now, that a lot of people will now understand just a little of what it's been like, for me. the isolation [i live alone] the fear of dying. i keep hearing of how it's the low paid workers who are the real heroes, not the musicians and sportsmen/women, and i agree, up to a point, but without our music idols, our social isolation would drive us all mad. it's our emotional equivalent of pain killers, anti-bacterials and anti-septic. it's as vital as the air we breath, the food we eat and the homes we live in. i don't have the words to express my thanks and appreciation to all of those musicians and performers who give their all to us. so many are just in it for the money and fame and the quality of what they do is pretty poor. those who give their all, so we can have the best they can possibly give us, are real heroes. thanks to all of them

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