"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...."
Goodness! Are all you guys sleeping in?
I'm an early bird these days. Once I would hang on to sleep and actually sleep in until 9 o'clock, unless I was working and then it was so hard to wake up and get up
Now, when I don't have to I'm up with the birds at 5 o'clock and in bed again by 10 pm
What has happened? Is this the beginning of not 'needing' the sleep we used to need?
Morning darkie and all,
Actually darkie according to this site
http://www.audiemurphy.com/movies.htm
he made a lot of westerns, Destry being one of his best I think. I remember watching them at the local flea pit each Saturday arvo matinee. Only thing I can't remember if I got it right was him singing on a horse. Maybe it was someone else? A few of them did that.
How's that for memory when I can't even remember what I did yesterday. 😄
I'd forgotten Destry bluepanda... I am wondering if you are thinking of that yodling cowboy on his horse, can't remember Audie singing.
Was it the Hi Ho Silver cowboy?
Hohoho, Our long term mememory stays with us longer than our short term memory :_|
Is time catching up with us? 🙂
Hi Ho Silver was the Loan Ranger. I think he was the one who said Kemo Sabay a lot. He rode around wearing mask.
Gene Autrey always sang either sitting on a corral fence, on his horse or sitting by a campfire (to disguise him being so short). Didn't he singalong with the Sons of the Pioneers? The only songs I can remember is Gene doing Back in the Saddle Again, and the SOTP doing Tumbling Along with the Tumbling Tumbleweeds.
I was more interested in Gene's horse, Champion.
I can remember all the names of the cowboy's horses.
OK OK....remember I was only a kid.
:^O :^O sorry freshwater, but I have to laugh, he was the LONE ranger, not the LOAN ranger... they are the people who want your money ....
Thank you I needed that laugh 🙂
That was it, Gene Autrey was the singing cowboy, gawd I could get sick of him.
It's everything freshwater... we don't want to be disturbed, upset or dislike anyone and our generation of people have learned how to treat eachother - or maybe we were taught when we were young.
It's just nice having somewhere to go where we can relax and just sit back and remember or exchange experiences on how we are coping as we get older 🙂
The idea came to me early one morning, when I was tired and fed up and I needed somewhere nice to be 🙂 xxxx
It's a great thread, richo really cracks me up!
