"This is for the Senior members of CS, those born before 1947. Baby Boomers and Generations X & Y are welcome providing you are over 18 ๐
But this is definitely for people who are facing the last long haul. We have survived babyhood, childhood, being teens and twenties... We have learned to read and write, to drive, have probably been married and the women have survived child birth.
The challenges are constant and the near misses of death are also there. If we have become a senior we have learned to survive so much, and along the way we have, of course, gathered a great deal of knowledge about life.
The belief that age diminishes us is not true, it changes us and not all of it is bad. Yes there can be various forms of dementia for some, but that is also a disease that can happen in younger people. Alzheimer's can also occur - it is another form of dementia and generally occurs in people over 65, although that can occur much earlier too and not everyone is going to get it.
Most of us keep our mental alertness up to the moment of death, even if we lose our hearing and our eyesight, but of course this can happen at any age too.
What changes is our physical strength, which diminishes but our mental strength and patience grows, it has to of course, to deal with this aging thing.
Arthritis, heart trouble, strokes - all these things associated with age can happen at any time in your life - arthritis can happen when you are a child but they don't like giving out new hips and knees until you are in your 50s and 60s or later. We can talk about that too.
Cancer can happen any time and that is also something we can discuss here if you like.
The point of this thread is to give the Seniors a chance to talk about how they are coping with age, the challenges it presents and the fears that can come with it... loss of hearing or sight, aging spouses, living alone, retirement villages, even death...
So I will ask that the Juniors treat us in kindly fashion and remember, all this is going to happen to you too - providing you avoid death before you get here ๐
So, onward and upward. Let's go...."
The generation is also known as the Postwar Generation and the Seekers, when it is not neglected altogether and placed by marketers in the same category as the G.I. or "Greatest" Generation.
In England, they were named the "Air Raid Generation" as children growing up amidst the crossfire of World War II.
If I hadn't read it I would not believe it.. I think seniors have a hell of a lot to say... if everyone else just stopped for a moment to listen..
I am an X-Gen myself but will happily sit back and read this thread...
Great idea Darkie... :-x
That's most interesting cat... I think they hit the nail on the head but didn't also mention that we were born in a time between wars and those were hard times for our parents.
We were silent because so often we didn't understand what was going on. I don't remember my father before I was five and the war was over, he served overseas in the Middle East and later in Niu Guinea...
When he came home there was all that my parents had to get used to again with eachother - not that I was aware at the time, but he drank a lot and there were rows... this was happening all over the place, people were disturbed and men were suffering from stress...
They were hard times and it's only now looking back at it all that I can understand why they finally broke up.
We, here in Australia, have no idea how hard those years were for everyone and I think that often the kids were overlooked to a great extent so, yes, we were silent, certainly we were not important there was no time for us and it wasn't until the next generation came along that the world changed...
Remember Elivs, the Beatles and the Rollings Stones? They were the beginning of the youth breakout and since then youth has been given the front row seats.
Yes, you are right there is a lot to say, we have lived through some tough times... we were lucky to be in Australia, I married an English fellow who was in London during the war, he was 5 when it started and he was sent south to Kent away from his family to stay on a farm with strangers... this happened to all the kids in London and it had a big effect on them.
Who else remembers those days?
Good morning all ๐
Dilly, you definitely half qualify... we must have a ยฝ generation group ๐ I do so hope all goes well with you today. It's awfully scary isn't it.
Ah yes the marches against Vietnam, I would have too except by then I had two children. Was married at 19 and a mother at 20... then again at 22.
I think that was the beginning of 'The Voice' of younger people.. especially our age group who were old enough to defy our parents and stand up and be heard... 'bout time too I say.
Hahaha love the thought of all of you jean, being rotated around the march via the police vans...
Yes I think that half the trouble we have now is that younger generations really do believe that as they age they will become gaga.. that we are verging on it and it scares the pants off them.
As for baby sitting... NO, I won't. I spent all my younger years caring for kids and now I am caring for me! I have a neighbour who seems to spend most of her time caring for her grandchildren and it is exhausting her.
'NO' is a beautiful word... the younger generations learnt to say it at birth... it is time we all practiced it... It is only 2 letters long... try it :^O
ROSIE you've sold!!!! I am so glad, it has taken so long hasn't it. You will be so glad to get down to your family at last ๐
Good morning Richo ๐ Good advice, that is what I did when I moved six years ago.
Wilma does your broom fly??? :^O
Sammee congratulations to your daughter, how exciting for you... yes keeping up with technology keeps the brain alive and that is always good. Computers are just the best thing, because even house bound you can have friends and interests... it's all out there for those of us who have computers.
No packing boxes used for cupboards for expectant mums, that's for sure.
Between you, me and the brick wall, when do we get old? Older yes, I've been doing that all my life, but 'Old'... obviously not yet eh? ๐
please substitute "osteoporosis" for 'osteoarthritis'.... derrrrr
Hi ya Gil, 'bouy toim too :^O Yes that was a bad time for you just glad you got over it and nowadays one doesn't go downhill with pneumonia every time one breaks a pelvis or hip.
Anyone remember seeing their Dads come back from the war?
My father's offices were in Castlereagh Street in Sydney and my mother took me up there where I could safely sit on the window sill and wait for the men to come marching by.
They came off the ships that had brought them back from the Middle East and as my father marched by he picked up his hat and waved to us.
The crowds we enormous and everyone was laughing and crying...
