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.
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?
Erica
@boris1gary wrote:
@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.
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
what's the point of being not dead if you're sick, or in pain, or unable to do things that you want to be able to?
Can't see any point ast all in being alive if you're greatest acheivement for the day is you managed to keep breathing. That's not a life. Not if you have previously been capable of more,
I met a friend one day who asked how I was. I replied that I was getting old and she said aren't we lucky. She was so right when you think about it. We have just lost another family member in his 30's.
This friend I met is near crippled with arthritis but still works very hard and has had a tough life at times yet still appreciates living and spending time with her large family.
@crikey*mate wrote:
@boris1gary wrote:
@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.
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
what's the point of being not dead if you're sick, or in pain, or unable to do things that you want to be able to?
Can't see any point ast all in being alive if you're greatest acheivement for the day is you managed to keep breathing. That's not a life. Not if you have previously been capable of more,
When i was in my early teens, i would say i didn't care if i died before I was 25, when I was 22, i would say i didn't care if i died before i was 30, when i was.............i think you can guess the rest. Also I said generally. Obviously I don't know how old you are but maybe ask yourself the same question in a few more years.
