"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...."
probably cos you don't have a clue what I'm talking about?:^O
Oh yes I have Gil and wasn't it wunnerful? I loved it.
Mother used to save the dripping and I remember her boiling it up with water and then when it had cooled and the dripping was on the surface she would cut it and scrape the bottom and then put it away for vegemite samwitches.... Oh YUM!
Sigh and now we would be told it was bad for us... all animals fat is bad for us... Waaaahhhhhh! :_|
probably cos you don't have a clue what I'm talking about?:^O
HUH? don't have a clue about man A and man B... where did you post it?
Erm... did you post it?
:^O
Morning Gil 🙂
Now at the back of my mind something stirs when you say it's a game... but can't bring it to the fore.
I think we should all go back to bread and dripping... I'm serious 😮
Really all I can think is that today they ruin good meat by too many preservatives and hormones and so eating dripping is now dangerous... damn them I say X-(
I now feel guilty every time I have a meal that adds butter or olive oil... now how stupid is that?
Someone somewhere is making a great deal of money, and I don't mean just the 'Diet Junkies'...
Do you remember.......... when 'diets' didn't exist? I do 😞
We live in Aldus Huxley's Brave New World and I think I hate it.
Not the birds plants, flowers and animals but all that human do to destroy all that used to exist...
Aaaaaggghhh! someone stop me. I've had a hell of a day and ther is no beauty in it at the moment...
I'm off for dinner and bed... Ni ni all xxxx
