Well not wanting to go deaf will make a person "different". Feeling you have to quit something you liked will make you different. Getting old makes you different.As mentioned before, he is my next door neighbor and I see him every morning. Right now it is about 8:15 AM and I will be taking my little dog Lucy for a walk soon and he will be outside in his front yard puttering around. Every day is the same. We exchange pleasantries, I go for a little walk and he sees us coming back down the street and meets us at his driveway and pets Lucy. He really likes her. Then we talk a little bit about what's wrong with the world and then I walk home next door and he goes inside. Every day same, except in the past we would talk about shooting and when we would go next, and what day and time......and we always had fun going. Now he doesn't want to talk about it at all. He talks to people fine, but it's just different now
He is a grown adult and he is as well versed on options and alternatives as any one in this thread. Do you really think he hasn't considered all this before deciding he doesn't want to risk what he has left? Lighten up a little. Sometimes ya just don't want to hear about it every freaking day and every time you turn on the TV they are selling hearing aids to old people and then the doctor says this or that and the wife is constantly telling you the same thing all day long and now even the neighbors dog is nagging at ya and just not hearing a squirrel hop through the leaves ever again is PITA enough. He may be wishing he'd never said a word about it to anyone by now.
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