Glossary entry

Spanish term or phrase:

desertar de nuestra vida

English translation:

give up on life

Added to glossary by Antonio Berbel Garcia
Apr 22, 2021 15:59
3 yrs ago
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Spanish term

desertar de nuestra vida

Spanish to English Art/Literary Poetry & Literature self-help
¿Es posible decir 'desert our life'?

contexto:
¿Hasta qué punto está preparado el adulto mayor para enfrentar con equilibrio y sano juicio los cambios físicos y los cognoscitivos? Pocos se preparan lo suficiente para la adultez mayor; algunos prefieren desertar de la vida antes que pasar por esa metamorfosis dolorosa. ¿Es la resignación la
salida, o la clara conciencia de una etapa de cambios propios del ciclo de la vida? Se requiere valentía para no doblegarse ante el olvido, o la
angustia que lo precede, en los desiertos días de la adultez avanzada.

Los “ancianos necesitan evaluar, adicionar y aceptar sus vidas para aceptar la proximidad de la muerte” (Erikson, 1978, p. 20). ¿Está
advertido el adulto mayor de esta transitoriedad del ciclo vital y del paso de los años? ¿Cuenta con valentía para sobreponerse a los cambios
desde la evaluación, la aceptación y la inminente llegada de la muerte?

Discussion

David Hollywood Apr 22, 2021:
I have had the privilege of meeting and sharing many happy and sometimes moving moments with these wonderful and admirable people I can easily call friends
David Hollywood Apr 22, 2021:
kindrid spirits Barbara and I can totally relate
Barbara Cochran, MFA Apr 22, 2021:
Me Too, But... I volunteered just about every Sunday at a state-of-the-art continuing care center in Oberlin, Ohio, for about 8 years, using my conversational and reading skills (I read a section of one of my literary translations to one resident) in French (mostly), Spanish, and Italian with selected residents, at least two of whom were quite famous in their fields (one was a Holocaust survivor, and one of her friends, as well as her,were translators). I never talked at all with them about anything at all that had to do with "giving up". Instead we talked about different experiences they had during their careers and about their families. I only hope that my visits brightened their days, if only a little, before it was time for them to pass, and for me to pass on to to other things.
David Hollywood Apr 22, 2021:
I work with the old-aged on a voluntary basis and always strive to motivate in the sense of "never give up" although sometimes it can be a desired and accepted release.

Proposed translations

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give up on life

That is how I would say it

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Peer comment(s):

agree David Hollywood : my thoughts entirely
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Thanks Daavid!
agree Katarina Peters : I was too late in posting...
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Thanks Katarina!
agree philgoddard
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Thanks Phil!
agree Eileen Brophy
5 hrs
agree Orkoyen (X)
7 hrs
agree Robert Forstag
19 hrs
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15 mins

give up on life / run away / escape

suggestions
Peer comment(s):

agree David Hollywood : give up on life
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Thank you David!
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18 mins

leave our old life behind/abandon/give up our former lives

A few possibilities that demonstrate the inevitable changes that are forced upon the lives of people as they head into old age and all of the physical and mental infirmities that come along with that. Letting go of the happier, healthier times, with a great deal of pysic pain.

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Note added at 1 hr (2021-04-22 17:41:46 GMT)
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sorry, that's "psychic pain"
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