Age is just a number in your mind.

Lately I have been reading so much about older peoples achievements. A 89y old lady winning swimming records for her age group. A 102y old lady teaching japanese. An older couple(can't remember their ages) walking around Australia. etc. etc.

 

 

www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/yearold-bodybuilder-sam-bryant-shows-age-is-a-state-of-mind/story-f...

 

One of my elderly neighbours walks every morning one kilometre to the local Swimming Pool, and then walks back again, and twice a week she helps in one of our OP Shops.

Here I am sitting on my backside, doing nothing constructive. Do you agree with this fellows ideology; Age is in your mind. ?

I should be ashamed of myself for always finding excuses not to get out of the house and smell the roses. It is either to hot, or to wet and windy, or to cold. What other excuses can I find?

 

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Age is just a number in your mind.

I'm only 23:-D
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Age is just a number in your mind.

A couple of generations ago 60 year olds were genuinely tired in body.

 

The manual labour by men was just that....manual.  No power drill, saws, cement mixers, witch ditches, etc.  pure physical energy.

 

The women swept and scrubbed floors, took rugs outside and belted them, did washerwoman work, mixed cakes by hand, kneaded dough, chopped the kindling for chip heaters or washing coppers and (usually) had a lot of children. 

 

I am not sure that the food is better now.  

 

But advances in Medicine is definitely better now.

 

DEB

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Age is just a number in your mind.

What I find disturbing is that some people cant manage to get that number to double digits regardless of their physical age 😞

I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
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Is it happening again?

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@spotweldersfriend wrote:
I've got to walk every day in this job,lugging around a heavy metal box in the heat,and I don't look a day over 50.

That's pretty good for a 30 year old

 

 

 

RUNS>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>


Some people can go their whole lives and never really live for a single minute.
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@lloydslights wrote:

A couple of generations ago 60 year olds were genuinely tired in body.

 

The manual labour by men was just that....manual.  No power drill, saws, cement mixers, witch ditches, etc.  pure physical energy.

 

The women swept and scrubbed floors, took rugs outside and belted them, did washerwoman work, mixed cakes by hand, kneaded dough, chopped the kindling for chip heaters or washing coppers and (usually) had a lot of children. 

 

I am not sure that the food is better now.  

 

But advances in Medicine is definitely better now.

 

DEB


perhaps, but threads like this still make me question what's so good about getting older.

 

I mean, just in these few posts, so much sadness, and yet we want to live longer?

 

Still getting my head around that one, to be honest.

 

No disrespect to anyone.

 

 

BTW, my mother used to make my father use skin care on his body like lADIES DO ON THEIR FACES (oops sorry) and sure, once he got 90, his skin became fragile and bled easliy, but they both really had good young looking skin,

 

Qld farming and hard manual labopur for a lot of their lives - so maybe that's the answer?


Some people can go their whole lives and never really live for a single minute.
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Age is just a number in your mind.

What shall I do with this absurdity —

0 heart, 0 troubled heart — this caricature,

Decrepit age that has been tied to me

As to a dog’s tail?

(W.B. Yeats)

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Age is just a number in your mind.

I think the oldest person to scale Everest was an 80 year old Japanese gent,so you've still got plenty of time,erica:-)
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Hubby and me decided that when the hot weather had gone we would go walking for an hour a day, plenty of walking tracks around where we live.

 

It is cooler now, but I cant go any where for at least 8 weeks as I have broken my toe and not allowed to walk on my foot much.........so really annoyed about that, as I had made my mind up, that I had to start walking, instead of sitting on the comp. or sitting doing craft all day.

 

If I have looked after my two grandchildren once they go, I feel 100yrs. they really wear me out.Smiley Sad

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@crikey*mate wrote:

@lloydslights wrote:

A couple of generations ago 60 year olds were genuinely tired in body.

 

The manual labour by men was just that....manual.  No power drill, saws, cement mixers, witch ditches, etc.  pure physical energy.

 

The women swept and scrubbed floors, took rugs outside and belted them, did washerwoman work, mixed cakes by hand, kneaded dough, chopped the kindling for chip heaters or washing coppers and (usually) had a lot of children. 

 

I am not sure that the food is better now.  

 

But advances in Medicine is definitely better now.

 

DEB


perhaps, but threads like this still make me question what's so good about getting older.

 

I mean, just in these few posts, so much sadness, and yet we want to live longer?

 

Still getting my head around that one, to be honest.

 

No disrespect to anyone.

 

 

BTW, my mother used to make my father use skin care on his body like lADIES DO ON THEIR FACES (oops sorry) and sure, once he got 90, his skin became fragile and bled easliy, but they both really had good young looking skin,

 

Qld farming and hard manual labopur for a lot of their lives - so maybe that's the answer?


crikey, surely the best thing about getting older is - you aren't dead. Of course generally people want to live as long as they can because you only get one life (apols to anyone who believes in reincarnation). That's how i think about it anyway. Woman Happy

 

And Erica. one thing you do that a lot of my older friends don't do - (my oldest friend is 94) , you use the internet and chat with all sorts of people, keeping the mind active Woman Happy 

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