"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 🙂
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 🙂
So, onward and upward. Let's go...."
Remembering when the butcher used to give you the soup bones for free.
Wish they still did moon, now I have to pay for the dog's bones and they are not cheap 😞
Apparently there was a day in Sydney when my mother was expecting me they called Black Wednesday... it reached to 40˚ and my father did a wise thing, dropped my mother off at the picture theatre that was air conditioned and picked her up at the end of the day.
I don't know what film she saw but I think she was happy to sit there and let the scenes roll by :^O
Remember having to make sure the seams on your stockings were straight ??
Did you ever draw the seams on your legs with eye brow pencil ??
Hahhaaa no I didn't moon, but I knew any number of girls who did... I prefered stockings to bare feet in shoes.
I do remember, when really with no money at all I sent the kids down to the butchers with $2 to buy cutlets... we could get enough to feed 8 for two nights 🙂
