"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...."
While we were visiting our son and DIL over Easter we got into a discussion on this topic. So my OH wrote a whole lot of numbers on a piece of paper and asked them to add them up without calculator or anything else. He did it very fast, they were still struggling after 5 mins. My OH had a basic education, these kids have 6 uni degrees between them.
Two very red faces and one smug OH.
:^O :^O :^O point made eh Jean.
Arvo gerries.
half way down the second page----lift your games-lol.
Darki-something else from the past is imperial measurements.
Still used in the spare parts caper.
Try and get someone under 30 to work out what 1 7/32
is in metric.............Richo.
BBL to see who has survived the last couple of days.
Hahaaa yes that's another one Richo, or how to live with real money in their pockets and not a plastic cards.
centimetres into inches or visa versa...
I am cheesed orf today. I was going through my credit card statement and found someone has been taking out $49.95 a month for the past month and I hadn't seen it.
I have no idea who they are or how they got to arrive at that amount, but I rang the bank and they have stopped my card and will pursue the individual and get my money back... I will get a new card next week, which means I have a whole new set of numbers to learn. Sigh!
JAYZUS! I think I'd rather go back to real money 😞
Sure its a horse Gilly--might be a descendant
of the Unicorn you had as a pet when you were a kidB-).
~~waves to Lyndal and the other gerries....Richo.
Snap Richo, I was thinking the same. :^O
How's the horse Gil?
Cold and wet down here, so just sitting and doing Ancestry... well it keeps the old mind alive and kicking.
