"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...."
Hi darki, If you want to see the funny side of the above scenario....it took place in her kitchen....me at 5'1" with a hairbrush....and my daughter at 5'10".
:^O Oh how I would have loved to see that ๐
That poem summed it all up perfectly. Sometimes I wish I grew up in that era, but I'm glad to live in the here and now so I can use the net to read about your memories.
I remember when the shops closed at noon on a Saturday and when Sunday was for church.
More, more, terra wants to read more?:|
You are right about the internet terra... it has made a huge difference and I'm glad I was born when I was and that I am here today to share it all.
I am sorry for my mother who died ten years ago. She wasn't of the computer age and yet she would have had such a wonderful time on it. She was spunky when it came to learning new things and this would have been right up her alley ๐
She remembered before the Sydney Harbour Bridge existed and when it was being built because she was born in 1910. She used to recall having to get the ferry across the harbour from the North Shore into Sydney.
I can remember when the trams used to go across the bridge long before the Cahill expressway was built, and the old tram shed where the Opera House now stands on Benelong Point.
The trams used to travel up and down George and Pitt Streets to the Quay.
The first 'high rise' building in Sydney has now been dwarfed by even higher buildings.
I remember the Trocadero where huge flash functions were held, where everyone wore their best long evening dresses and the men wore bow ties and dress suits...
I will try to recall more for you ๐
"I remember when it was safe to play out in the street, even when dark, plus being gone all day and parents didnt worry about us"
That was before the Graham Thorn murder in 1960.
I'm not sure terra that you would have been old enough to remember that, but when the Opera house was being built they realised it was going to cost heaps more than originally thought, and so began an Opera House Lottery.
The first prize was $200,000 which was a huge amount back then = equal to about 1 million dollars or more today and it was very popular of course.
The first prize winners were the Thorns and within days their young son Graham was kidnapped and the ransome was - you got it - the $200,000 dollars.
That they finally found his body and the kidnapper was due entirely to the incredible amount of forensic work that went on world wide.
You can read about it here:
http://www.google.com.au/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=graeme+thorne+kidnapping&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&redir_esc=&ei=PHh2UJyHL8uwiQfQj4HABA After than Australia ceased to be safe for kids out in the streets, especially at night and so this era began ๐
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